CO129-253 - Public Offices & Others - 1891 — Page 228

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ing their

of the Colony, to the extent that its means will admit, to provide lands and buildings for its Garrison, it would be useless, even if it were practicable, to determine the extent of the interest which the Colony and the Imperial Government

respectively possess in those properties. Practically these properties

are

of no tangible value to the Colony until it obtain's full possession of them;

and when it obtains possession of them, the amount

they

would fetch in the market is the true

the value they possess for the Colony.

than the measure of

nistrand -

They

are of no value, in a

money point of view

to the Imperial Government, except in so far as their valuation on surrender may present extra charges falling

the

exchequer

when

they have to be exchanged for more appropriate

sites.

9.

The

letter f

expressions in paras: 4 and 6 of the the Officer Administering the Government

where

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