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which Department would also hold it for defence purposes;
but it will be necessary that the Admiralty should pay
the War Department a fair market value for the property,
in order that the War Department may not be prejudiced
by the transaction and may have the same amount of funds
at its disposal for providing Barracks elsewhere that
would accrue if the property were to be given up to the
Colonial Government to deal with under the terms of the
above mentioned Despatch of the 9th June 1890.
This concludes the transactions as to property
within the Cantonment; but it is also proposed that the
War Department shall sell, in the open market, the out-
lying property called Spring Gardens, shewn in red on
Plan B, and shall apply the proceeds to providing Barrack
accommodation elsewhere.
This property was acquired by the War Depart-
ment in 1857 by purchase of the residue of a 999 years
lease.
Finally the War Department shall surrender to
the Colony the property shewn in pink on Plan B, and
called Murray Battery, which the Colony is desirous of
acquiring as a site for Government buildings.
This property is held by the War Department as
Colonial Military land, and would be surrendered to the
Colony under the conditions of the Colonial Office
Despatch of June the 9th 1890, the value being applied
to the erection of Barracks elsewhere in the Colony
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