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Colonial Governments and acquiesced in by Fis Vajesty's Government that garrisons required for purely imperial purposes should not be paid for by the Colony.
The only other point which requires consideration is whether the colonies should also pay a naval contribu- tion. As has been observed the Treasury tried to insist on this in the case of feylon, and indeed for some years actually handed over to the Admiralty a portion of the Ceylon contribution as a naval contribution. But the colony and the Colonial Office steadfastly re- fused tqicknowledge this position.
I am not aware that the question has ever formally been raised since the Treasury attempt on Ceylon. The position held up to that time is that expressed in a despatch to the Governor of the Straits in 1889
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"In dealing with the great question of the defence of the Empire it is difficult to lay down any other broad principle for dividing he cost of Colonial defence excep that of the mother country undertaking the sea defence of the Colonies by means of her Navy and the Colonies, so far as their means allow, respectively providing for their own land defence".
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