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*not affect the obligation of a Colony to provide other lands

*required within its borders for military purposes whether

'under some special agreement or under the general obligation

'that rests on every Colony to contribute, according to its

*peans, towards its own defence."

11. Not only does clause 4 of the despatch

seem to make it plain that a book account is to be kept sole-

ly of the value of surrendered "defensive* lands and of that

portion of such value as may be expended on the purchase by

the War Department of new lands or buildings required for

'defensive" purposes, but the frequent use of the phrase *lands

*or buildings for defensive purposes' in many clauses of the

despatch and the use of the phrase "lands required for mili-

tary purposes' which occurs in clause 11,appear to emphasize

a distinction between lands required for defensive purposes

and those required for military purposes.

12. Your Excellency may agree with me that a

new site for the General's residence would not be land re- for defensive purposes, but would be land required

quired for Military purposes. The same remark seems to be ap

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plicable to a site wanted for a soldiers' hospital, viz., that

though it be land required for military purposes, it is not

land required for defensive purposes.

13. If therefore the land now sought by the

War Department as a site for a Military Hospital is land re-

quired, not for defensive, but for military purposes, it does

not come within that part of the despatch which provides

that