CO129-251 - Acting Governor Barker - 1891 [9-11] — Page 473

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arrangement, with which under

ordinary been

Arcumstances it would not have

necessary

to trouble your Lordship

except as regards the transfer of property from the War Department to

the Admirally, still I have thought it

to bring it to

· Mecessary

Noter

Your

Lordship's

thus in detail, as it has

sprung out of the larger proposals

m

which

Your Lordship, the Lords of

the Admiralty, and the stretary of

State

for War,

have respectively

invited a simultaneous report pon

the Governor, the Admiral, and

the General

Made

my

the latter

having already

and

A

report

to the War

Office

in

Capacity (the Admiral also

having

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having reported to the Admiralty his

Concurrence in the scheme), I have

to explain to your

been

Anxions.

Lordship how I have been careful

the fall

to obtain

only of

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Dr

full consent not

William

Des Voeux but

of the Council and the Legal and Execution Officers of the Government, before reporting on it in my Capacity as Governor with a full sense of my responsibility as regards protecting

Colonial interests •

In that

to strongly

Capacity

recommend

I have the honour

the scheme

as explained by the enclosare Q

to

your Lordships approval and support, in the

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