by no means at any moment.
This demand appears to me to be unjust and illogical, and one to be resisted.
8.
In the 2nd paragraph of your Despatch 582 under acknowledgment you state that you consider that the War Department has a reasonable claim under the Circular of 30th December, 1894, to be credited with the difference in value between the lands when subject to the rights in question and the value when freed from those rights", which I observe is a quotation from paragraph 2 of your Despatch No. 1 of the 1st January, 1898.
This is a proposition in which I cannot concur, for in the first place it begs the question of the existence of "rights" and, secondly if carried into effect, it would amount to this Government crediting the War Department in some cases, with the present market value of the land.
It is inequitable that the War Department should receive any value for lands which were never in their possession, and much more so that they should receive a free gift of the enhanced value of land over which restrictions have been placed by this Government at the request of the Military Authorities for a number of years. It is as if a man had a revocable permission to walk across a part of certain grounds and, when he no longer wanted to walk across such grounds, claimed compensation in the shape either of the value of the ground over which he had permission to walk, or of permission to walk over another portion of such grounds.
9.
I would ask your strongest support in combating
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-ment at any moment.
This demand appears to me to be unjust
and illogical, and one to be resisted.
8.
In the 2nd. paragraph of your Despatch
582
under acknowledgment you state that you consider that the
War Department has a reasonable claim under the Circular of
30th, December, 1894, to be credited with the difference in
valus between the lands when subject to the rights in question
and the value when freed from' those rights", which I observe
is a quotation from paragraph 2 of your Despatch No. 1 of
the 1st. January, 1898.
This is a proposition in which I cannot
concur, for in the first place it begs the question of the existence of "rights' and, secondly if carried into effect,
it would amount to this Goverment crediting the War Depart- ment in some cases, with the present market value of the land.
It is inequitable that the War Department
should receive any value for lands which were never in their possession, and much more so that they should receive a free gift of the enhanced value of land over which restrictions
have been placed by this Goverment at the request of the
Military Authorities for a number of years. It is as if a
man had a revocable permission to walk across a part of
certain grounds and, when he no longer wanted to walk across
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such grounds, claimed compensation in the shape either of the value of the ground over which he had permission to walk,or
of permission to walk over another portion of such grounds.
9.
I would ask your strongest support in
combating
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