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and any surplus over the cost of

lands and buildings necessary for the

defence of the Colony, and ony surplus

would be a direct gain to Colonial

rovenues.

2. The Circular really proposed that

the value of all existing Colonial

Military Crown Lands and #

buildings

should be regarded as a capital sum

appropriated to defence purposes, and

that in future, whenever any such pro-

porties 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 ad-ditional charge on the revenues

of the Colony, as it would actually

receive the value it was required to

hold available for future use, and it

was pointed out in paragraph 6 that

if some such rule were not adopted, the

Colony on any change of properties

would gain the full value of those