4
3.
nature, in the reduction
extent of £2800 per
same time
of Salaries,
Salaries, to the
dunum; and. I at the
suggested further
retrenchments
to the extent of £1.800 yearly -
The Military Expenditure of this
Colony is wholly defrayed by the army Ordnance Estimates. – The reduction
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Land- front of the Cantonment, which mounts
"The only remaining defence to be
Six Guns- constructed towards the water on this side
is a
large battery of fifteen Guns à fleur
d'eau, to command the whole harbour,
which is now
Military rxpenditure-
and
the site
for
levelling.
Jublic Works.
The
expenditure
on leerunt.
of Public
Works
during
the
of the
Military hetablishment, and staff from a "field: free to the scale of a garrison with this year effect
year effect an important retrenchment in expence, which will be assisted- the change from Indian allowances to ordinary folonial pay._.-
Some
of the most important
by
Military works, as the Barracks and Storpital, have been completed. On the town and harbour side two
open
batteries have been constructed, one at the hast sea-
sea-pout of the cantonment,
mounting nine Guns, and another upon Government. Still on the weet
"
enewing twelve months will be comparatively large, on account. of the Building for the Public Offices Retimated at £142,300_ to be excented by the Ordnance Department . The works already in progress, or of which the Reports and Retimates have been sanctioned by Her Majesty's Goremment, comprice nearly all that are "required by the early exigencies of this Colony, with the exception of a Court: House, which is at present rented, and of Government House, which I have
to the last.
In
·
this new
left
my report of last year. I stated."