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strict accordance with the
wishes of the Secretary of State for exversed in the loan office the 17th January last
ivar, as
letter of
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2.
This instinction shall strictly followed: but I tinet
may
be permitted to observe
in the
that I see nothing correspondence that has passed at home to alter the opinion
have formed, that the site fixed whon for the Banacks is not the mirst suitable
for
the varied requirements of a Cantonment.
an Minion which is shared by Admiral Sir James Hope, the
Surveyor beneral, the Colonial Lungeon and other medical Practitioners in the Colony, and also I believe by the present Commanding Royal Engineer.. Iregret ales to observe that the present demands
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the War department as shown in Plan A./ which accompanied the letter of
lock, are
the
advanc
17th January greatly in excess not only of those originally adreund here by the local military authorities, but of those decided upon by the late Lold burbut in the War office letter of 29th June 1861, which forms part
of
the
the
conrespondence transmitted