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Land not required for military purposes will revest to the Colony - the Colony however being bound to make reasonable compensation for the improvements which have been effected on the abandoned site - and also (that) if the abandonment imposes on the Imperial Government the necessity of procuring a fresh site elsewhere, that site must be acquired at the expense of the Colony.
This arrangement was very limited in its scope, and is inapplicable to present circumstances, and there appears to be no sufficient reason for setting aside in its favour the principles recently laid down in the memorandum accompanying the Colonial Office circular of the 9th of June 1890.
9. Mr Secretary Stanhope regrets further that he is unable to accede to the proposal that the question of the mode of valuing abandoned sites should be submitted to some