J * 397 buildings; which paragraph was after full consideration of the Report, adopted by the War Office, Treasury, and Colonial Office, and embodied in identical terms in the Memorandum which accompanied the Circular despatch addressed to the various colonies by the Colonial Office on the 9th June 1890.
3. The paragraph in question (para: 56 of Report and 4 of Memo) runs as follows:
It is therefore considered that all such "military properties and their values should be treated as part of a capital sum devoted to defensive purposes, and that, when they are disposed of by sale or by transfer to the Civil Government, their realised or estimated values should as hereinafter detailed, be retained by the Colonial Governments, and be held by them available towards the provision of such other lands and buildings as it may subsequently be necessary to acquire for defensive purposes."
4. These