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application being to give the Association time to collect

the necessary funds for the purchase of the lots and for

the erection of the buildings on them. As there had been

no demand for the land, I felt justified, considering the

beneficent purpose for which the Association wanted it, in

granting this request, and in promising that the lots

should be leased to the Association if required within the

18 months at a premium of $18,690, being at the rate of

$2.50 per Square Foot, and subject to an annual Crown Rent

at the rate of $700 per acre, this being the value of the

lots computed by the Principal Land Surveyor. I regret to

say that by an oversight the letter to the General Secreta

-ry of the Association did not say, as it should have done,

that the sale without auction was subject to the approval

of the Secretary of State.

3.

The Association have now come for-

-ward with a request to purchase the land at the rates for

premium and crown rent previously specified, with the

modification that the road (Jose Lane) between the two

sites be closed and its area added making one site 8,800

Square Feet in area instead of two each of 3,738 Square

Feet.

There is no objection to the

absorption

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