Copy.
With which was sent to tops in Bow Deck, No 194 of,
Enclosure No.2 to H.E. the Governor's despatch
No.396 of the 6th October, 1901.
From the Hon. Acting Attorney General.
To the Honourable the Colonial Secretary.
75 Hon. Col. Secy.
This whole question appears to be regulated by
the terms of Lord Ripon's Circular Despatch of the 30th
December, 1894, which will be found set out on pages 93-95 of
the annexed Blue Book on Military Lands.
The principles laid down in that Circular were
accepted by the Legislative Council of this Colony. (See Sir
W. Robinson's Despatch of the 19th April, 1895, at page 35 of
the Blue Book).
as follows:-
From Lord Ripon's Circular Despatch it appears
Par 2 All Colonial Military Lands and Buildings no
longer required by Her Majesty's Government are to be freely
surrendered to the Colony, on the Colony engaging, in its
turn, to provide an equivalent in land and buildings when
required, and a record is to be kept of the value of the land
and buildings surrendered.
Par.3. It is stated that the Colonial Military Lands
are to be regarded as a permanent Defence Fund of the Colony,
the integrity of which ought to be preserved, in kind or
value, and that their value is to be treated as forming a
capital applicable for providing other lands or buildings
which may be required in the Colony for such purposes.
Par.4.
provides that, if the Colonial Government does not