CO129-296 - Public Offices & Others - 1899 — Page 98

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The Chairman said that the Bill was suspended on behalf of the Committee.

1. Elect

2. Gas:

3. Tram

Correspondence 35 & 523, A.385.

A special account was to be kept between the two Governments in which the value of any lands surrendered would be entered to the debit of the Colonial Government and the cost of those provided in return up to the said value entered to its credit. It expressly did not legislate for the further provision of lands by the Colonial Government beyond the value of those surrendered. Paragraph 11 states :- "The foregoing proposal relates solely to the terms on which Colonial Military Lands in the hands of the War Department shall be surrendered to a Colonial Government. It does 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 resting on every Colony to contribute according to its means to its defence".

4. The question of the cost of provision of barracks for the increased garrison was taken up again in 1892. Eventually the Treasury agreed to the original proposal made by the Committee of 1888 with the modification that in the special circumstances of the Colony the condition as to free provision of sites should be waived. The agreement arrived at was, therefore, that the full market value of the Colonial Military lands and buildings surrendered by the War Department would be applied in reduction of the gross cost of the new scheme of works, including now sites, and that the remainder of the ...

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Page 97 The Chairman said that the Bill was suspended on behalf of the Committee. 1. Elect 2. Gas: 3. Tram Correspondence 35 & 523, A.385. A special account was to be kept between the two Governments in which the value of any lands surrendered would be entered to the debit of the Colonial Government and the cost of those provided in return up to the said value entered to its credit. It expressly did not legislate for the further provision of lands by the Colonial Government beyond the value of those surrendered. Paragraph 11 states :- "The foregoing proposal relates solely to the terms on which Colonial Military Lands in the hands of the War Department shall be surrendered to a Colonial Government. It does 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 resting on every Colony to contribute according to its means to its defence". 4. The question of the cost of provision of barracks for the increased garrison was taken up again in 1892. Eventually the Treasury agreed to the original proposal made by the Committee of 1888 with the modification that in the special circumstances of the Colony the condition as to free provision of sites should be waived. The agreement arrived at was, therefore, that the full market value of the Colonial Military lands and buildings surrendered by the War Department would be applied in reduction of the gross cost of the new scheme of works, including now sites, and that the remainder of the ...
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The Chairman Bill [Lore suspended on behalf

1. Elect 2. Gas:

3. Tram

rint ed

spondence

35 & 523.

of A.385.

special account to be kept between the two Governments in

which the value of any lands surrendered would be enterad

to the debit of the Colonial Government and the cost of

those provided in return up to the said value entered to

its credit. It expressly did not legislate for the

further provision of lands by the Colonial Government

beyond the value of those surrendered. Paragraph 11

states :- "The foregoing proposal relates solely to the

terms on which Colonial Military Lands in the hands of

the War Department shall be surrendered to a Colonial

Government. It does not affect the obligation of a

Colony to provide other lands required within its borders for military purposes whether under some special agree-

ment or under the general obligation resting on every Colony to contribute according to its means to its

defence".

4. The question of the cost of provision of bar- racks for the increased garrison was taken up again in 1892. Eventually the Treasury agreed to the original proposal made by the Committee of 1888 with the modifica- tion that in the special circumstances of the Colony the condition as to free provision of sites should be waived.

The agreement arrived at was therefore, that the full market value of the Colonial Military lands and buildings surrendered by the War Department would be applied in reduction of the gross cost of the new scheme of works, including now sites, and that the remainder of the

molim Varolusezon OLAN VEE

bet bahivonq

engibr

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