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put up on

on a rural building leasehold of 75 years, was, that a house should

be built on the site within twelve

dee

how-any

months, I hardly special indulgence can be claimed

for

the mere

A

fulfilment of a

covenant, nor can I find any other sufficient reason adduced in the enclosed document for tearing up the 75 year covenants that were entered into between the Government

and the Memorialists.

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conceive that contracts

should be as solemnly binding -- between the Government and the

· people, as they

are between man

and

and man in the common-

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affairs

of life, and as I think move over that on broad principles the Government should uphold and ~.

adhere to

any

rules it

may-after

due deliberation have laid down-

with

regard

to land tenure and

the duration of leaseholds in relation to the rentals charged for the land, I much regret that I should have to abstain from

supporting this snemorial, the so that I find among

itas

more

Colony

signatories all those in the whom I hold in the highest-

respect, and whose interests it would have been no omall

satisfaction

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