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limited to, the fulfilment of that duty.
If not required for the provision of lands or buildings the funds will not be used and will be available for the Civil purposes of Colonies. It is impossible to believe that the Committee in recommending, and the Government in approving, that the "realized or estimated values" of Military lands when sold, or transferred, should be recorded for future use, meant that the value of the right of user only should be recorded.
The right of Military user could obviously not be sold and could therefore not be "realized", and as the Colonial Office itself has pointed out that the right ceases to have any value when it ceases to be necessary, it is clear that the "Capital Sum" to be realized out of such rights would be Nil.
The Committee either meant that the realized or estimated value of the properties when sold or transferred should be recorded, or it made a recommendation which, for the purposes it had in view, was absolutely unmeaning.
Seeing that the Committee's recommendation, as understood by the Treasury and War Office, confirms and systematises a long established custom, it is submitted that the reading of these Departments of the decision the Government arrived at in 1890 is the right one, and should be confirmed.