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Major-General Commanding. the Troops, and the principal Officers of the Royal Engineers,

of the Army Medical

and

Department

are now,

I

believe, for the first time,

unanimous in their consent to the removal of this restriction; and I have

confidence therefore that_ with the fuller Knowledge of the circumstances afforded by this correspondence. Her Majesty's Government will

Now

now accord their sanction to a

measure,

which I respectfully

submit as one.

of simple

justice.

//.

I

must not omit to

mention that on

two occasion

occasions

the War Department has relinquished every right

connection with this land

in

which it had previously claimed. In the War office Despatch, 19th of March, 1868, the Earl of Longford addressing : the Under Secretary of State for

the