CO129-296 - Public Offices & Others - 1899 — Page 106

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subject to resumption Lot for

4 W. Def

Department, and as it is obvious that a joint ownership

cannot be admitted, it is considered that such sites

should become War Department property,

(with or without compensation).

subject to

In the case of Colonial land over which Clear-

ance rights exist, the Clearance Rights being already

held by the W.D. the recorded value should be the differ-

ence between the value of the land, subject to Clearance

Rights and the value which the land would have if these

restrictions were removed.

(c)

If

In the case of the land required for W.D.

already leased for other purposes being the property of a private individual, if

the buildings are erected altogether at W.D. cost, the

land would be provided by the Colonial Government.

However, if the buildings are erected partly at the cost of

the War Department and partly at the cost of the Colonial

Government, the cost of purchase would be paid in the

same proportion as the cost of the buildings.

In the first case the land will obviously become Colonial Mili-

tary Land and in the second case, for the reasons given

in (b), the land would become the property of the War

Department.

In the