CO129-250 - Acting Governor Barker - 1891 [6-8] — Page 299

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· proposed to set aside.

I may be permitted

to remark, however, that the fact of the Colonial Government paying the instalments of the Military contribution at the market

rates of exchange, is quoted in that despatch

support of the contention

system

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that the same

should be adopted in respect of the Colonial_ Defence Contribution.

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The principle of ~

payment at the current. _ rate of the day

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further

upheld in Your Lordship's

despatches Nos 217 and 223 of 6th and 10th October last, and has recently been - observed, by specia i instructions from

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the

Secretary of State for War, in a minor payment due from the local Military Department to the Colonial Government.

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