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Mr.
Mr.
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Mr.
Sir C. Parkinson.
Sir G. Tomlinson.
Sir C. Bottomley.
Sir J. Shuckburgh.
Permt. U.S. of S.
Parly. U.S. of S.
Secretary of State.
required then or in the future for the
ial Gent! Colony
defence of the Colony, the Colony should
provide an equivalent for the lands and
buildings so surrendered towards the
satisfaction of the above-mentioned
DRAFT.
FURTHER ACTION.
requirements, and to that intent the
value of the lands and buildings
surrendered should be ascertained and
recorded, and any lands and buildings
provided out of that value should be
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held by His Majesty's Government on the
same tenure as those surrendered.
This decision was based on the
assumption that the Colonial military
lands in question constituted a permanent
Capital Defence Fund of the Colony, the
integrity of which ought to be preserved
in kind or value even though the
original lands themselves might be
no longer repond for defence
diverted to civil purposes. Accordingly,
1/purposes.
whenever such lands which had been set
apart