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few years,

Necessary

to

and that it will be absolutely

assure

to the punchaser the

possession of the recovered plot, and at the

16th April 1861 Containing the paragraph alluded to in the bolonial Secretary's

letter N. 808

204 November 1865.

Saking into consideration the whole

same time

informing

the C. R. E. that no

the

facts of

annual rental will be required from

war Department as from other funchusers

of Colonial Lands.

The War Department

ment was this

in prosession of these facts; that no annual erepense world devolve

(

of

upon this plot, that their right to free

them on account

Access

to the sea was not disfinted, and that they could hereafter profit beyond the right of

free

access

by

reimbursing the bolony

the amount expended in the reclamation

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of the land upon this information issued the War Department letter Hinghing

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the case

2

am

of opinion that that paragraph does not appear to warrant

the conclusion drawn from it as set forth in the Colonial Secretary's letter viz:

that

the W. D. have given up their right to

the ownership of the reclaimed land. I submit that it simply refers to the

the question of

payment then or otherwise of $12.60, which sum was in no

way connected with the purchase of additional land to be added to the original property,

but was

merely the share allotted to the

War Department,

in the same

way

as the

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