CO129-267 - Governor Sir Robinson - 1895 [4-6] — Page 361

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Government respecting the_ payment of Crown rent to which certain property

vir

Inland lot 733 situated in Queen's Road East is subjected

and to request Your Lordship's

decision

on

the matter.

On the 23rd May, 1894, the Military Authorities purchased of M:. A. F. Smith the property above mentioned and they now claim that inasmuch

as it has passed into their hands it should no longer

be

be liable to the annual pay- ment of

crown rent to the

Colonial Government.

A precedent appears

in support of this claim in Gov's W. 4 of Jany. 22, 1852. the despatches noted See p. of State's W. 14 of May

Secy

10, 1852.

in the

margin

referring to the purchase of _ Mess Gemmell's premised for Naval and Military

Military purposes

in 1852, and the general princi

ple

was laid down that the Military Departments should have allotted to their purposes,

free

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