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the boundaries on the plan illustrating No.3 exchange
were as yet only approximate.
4. In view of the arrangements regarding the three
exchanges having been so described in the proceedings
of the Committee, it is unfortunate that no qualifica-
tion was introduced by the Governor into his general
approval of the recommendations of the Committee, if
his intention was to proceed no further with the
negociations relating to No.3 exchange, and also that no
such intimation was conveyed to the Military Authorities
till the 11th May 1901, when the Director of Works
apprised the Commanding Royal Engineer to that
effect.
5.
Mr. Brodrick hopes that Mr.Chamberlain will
agree that it is undesirable that the present opportunity
for closing a long standing controversy should be
neglected, and that the triple exchange, as approved by
the Treasury, should now be effected subject to such
modifications in detail in respect of No.3 exchange
as may be necessitated by the later surveys prepared
by March 1901.
If No.3 exchange be thus accepted in principle
Mr.Brodrick is prepared to consent that the transfers
connected