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between the Committee

and

this

Government up to the 13th October

1879 has already been forwarded

to

your

Lordship's predecessor

the Committee do not feel justified in further troubling your Lordship with the same

but they would respectfully

urge

that directions should

be given for the continuance

of the Government grant

whatever the decision

come

to

upon the basis of settlement)

referred to they would have

felt bound by it

and

they

would not have consented to

consider the matter in

the

way they did but for the expression of His Excellency the Governor's willingness to accede to

this mode of settling the

difficulty

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difficulty that has arisen.

I have the honour to be,

Your Lordship's

obedient Humble servant.

W. Lie

Chairman