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which expenditure the Colony is at,

only asked to contribute £100,000 or

present 1/4 th of

the whole, Mr Stanhope considers that the

claim to have lightened

Government may

the burden on Colonial revenues to the

Utmost extent compatible with a reasonable regard for the interests of the Imperial Exchequer : but this aspect of the question: has already been fully dealt with in recent Correspondence, and need not be further dwelt. upon.

13. The Officer Administering

the Government

states that by fortuitous circumstances the

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War Department has been allotted a vast

the very

heart of

: area of land in the - best quarter of this City, thereby causing

" immense loss of revenue and much inconvenience

to the Colony and their endeavour should

be

(9).