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In the present stati

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The Military

question in there Eastern Colomer

I am not

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k ham the

mulher somewhat open à recarcideratia.

K. Aug.

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Memorandum.

In Sir Hercules Robinson's

-published Despatch are 184 of 74 September 1864, 12th paragraph, it

was pointed out to The Secretary of State that it would be better if the

Military Contribution were

imposed by

Order in Council instead of Annual

Note of the local Legislature

Ar bardwell in the last

-paragraph of his reply (also published)

promised to consider the point.

I concluded that the point

was set at rest in the Despatch from The Sceretary of State which I read to