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resuming the Jail and Naval Stores Guards.
In Despatch No. 56 of 20th June last, the Lieutenant-Governor reported to your Lordship the arrangements that were then adopted for guarding the Naval Stores, and in my Despatch No. 179 of 20th August, I informed Your Lordship that certain Police Constables had been engaged to guard the Jail in consequence of the sickness of the garrison.
I had hoped that long ere this, the Colony would have been relieved from the expenditure incurred for this service, but unhappily the present state of the Troops does not admit of any extra measure.
No. 3.
I also forward Copy of a letter I addressed to the Naval Commander-in-Chief on the 19th Instant, together with the reply of His Excellency, on the Subject of the outlay incurred by the Civil Department for affording Police protection to the Naval Stores, arising from the inability of the Troops to furnish guards for that purpose.
That no allowance for this contingency has ever been made in the Colonial Estimates, and consequently the Colony does not possess the funds requisite to discharge this unlooked-for outlay, and I therefore submit for the consideration of Your Lordship that the Admiralty