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2.

I am advised by the Law Officers with re-

gard to the disposal of the Murray Battery site, which was

not purchased and paid for by the Imperial Government and

is no

longer required for military purposes, and of which

the retention is not desired by the Colonial Government

that the procedure in accordance with the Colonial Office

Circulars of 1890 and 1894 on the Disposal of Colonial

Military Lands, is for the War Department to surrender the

site to the Colonial Government, for that Government to

#ell the lease in the usual way and for the usual term of

75 years and for the proceeds of the sale to be placed to

the credit of the War Department in the Military Lands

Account.

3.

I am further advised that in the case of

the Spring Gardens property of which the unexpired portion

of a 999 years lease was purchased by the War Department

in 1857 from a Crown Lessee for the sum of $25,000 and

which was expressly exempted in 1859 from Crown rent while

it remained the property of the War Department, that De-

partment can dispose of the remainder of the lease to pri-

vate persons subject to the re-imposition of Crown rent.

4.

The General Officer Commanding who treats

the Murray Battery site and Spring Gardens property as

under