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of any interference by the Military, that their officers as low down as Barrack Masters "Authorized to report secretly and confidentially on all matters appertaining to Barracks; and General Officers and others in Command of the Troops in the Colonies, have the most stringent orders not to interfere directly or indirectly, with these reports.
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My Remarks on Major Aldrich's plan -
that we shall not have accommodation for the 100 or 700 men that arrive without any Barracks when the Depot of the 98th Regiment arrives.
2nd we have no accommodation for officers and men - MEN, not even for the officers of the Troops who are to be building here...
Barrack now we have no accommodation for this recupy the-
3rd The Commissaries and the Civil Staff of the Ordnance are equally unprovided for.
All these parties are entitled, under colonial regulations, to a certain quantum according to their rank of Barrack accommodation, and it therefore appeared to me, taking into Consideration, the advantage of being able, at once to locate all these parties in a Central Position that the wisest thing the Government could do was to purchase the houses proposed to be bought by Major Aldrich, and apply them to these purposes without any reference to the question of Fortification.
It is quite clear, that if the duty here is to be done hereafter by European Troops.