No. 45.
The Hon. the Colonial Treasurer to the Chief Commissioner.

I am directed by the Colonial Treasurer to inform you that in all purchases of land from the Natives the Commissioners engaged in the negotiations for such purposes will be required to report what portions of each block purchased should, in their opinion, be reserved for the construction of trunk lines of road, or as sites for public buildings for the use of the General Government. And where it may appear to any Commissioner to be desirable that a reserve should be made for military purposes, it will be his duty to call the attention of the Government to the subject. You will be good enough to communicate instructions to the above effect to all Commissioners for the Purchase of Native Lands.