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future whenever

any

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such properties

were

surrendered, as no

longer

suited to their

purpose, the value should be recorded, and

if necessary, devoted, at the time or subsequently, to the provision of such other lands or

buildings

as might be required

for the garrison . This course would entail no additional charge on the revenues of the

Colony,

it was

as it would actually receive the value

required to hold available for future use, and it was pointed out in pars & that if some such rule were not adopted, the Colony on any change of properties would gain the full value of those surrendered, while the Imperial Government might have imposed upon it the cost of providing other sites or

buildings.

44.

In some Colonies, if the value of the surrendered properties should not suffice

to provide such new properties as

might

be subsequently required,

the Colony

would

to