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losives now located of all explosives elsewhere, and has suggested
that it might be of mutual advantage if the Magazine for Explosives were reinoved to the East or North-east face of the hill at the East end
the island now,
be
proposed to
given back to the
I have
no
the Colony objection
to offer to this proposal, and as the construction of a
Magazine, which is provided for in the Estimates
new
for
year, has not
for the current been commenced, Major-~ General Barker's suggestion can be given effect to if above proposals for apportioning the island are
carried out.
9.
if the
Your Lordship will
observe that in the above
proposals I have not entered
into any
consideration
of the
values of the plots of land to be given up on either-
side.
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