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the Heads of those Departments, that is, the Officer Commanding or the Senior officer Her Majesty's Navy at this Station; but as the past experience has perfectly demonstrated, that it is far more economical, to say nothing of the other obvious advantages as to health and discipline, to provide good quarters for the Troops on shore, in preference to keeping them shut up in expensive, hired Transports, and that the same reasoning applies to all Kinds of Stores, as their care and preservation extends; I give your full Authority to comply with any requisitions You may receive from the Authorities above named, and to give effect to their wishes, regarding the allotment of Sites, and advances for Buildings, whether for Barracks, Store-Houses, Hospitals,

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