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but at in accompanying Facing Shews what seems to him to be the
smallest extent of land which would suffice for the requirements of the Service. I am, however, directed
to requect that the Governor may be instructed to confer with the Commanding Royal Engineer
and
the principal medical officer at the station, as to the distance from the barracks at which the erection
of buildings should be allowed, and the class of buildings which should be placed near the banach
boundary.
With
reference to the ap. proprication of land to defensive penposes, Sam directed to state
that, in consessence of additional
M.
the Edo
information obtained simme
the date of the letter addresses to you on the 17th Jan. Sich. C. Lewis
has been leak to the decision that, although it is only proposed that permanent batten's should be constructed on a few of the Sites marked for the purpose on the plans which were forwarded forthe information of his Grace,
it is necessary that others should be retained as positions on which juns might be mounted intime of war; and Sir George Lewis does not therefore feel justified in resiping any of the sites, with the exception of those designated 11 and 12 in the report of
the Surveyor General, which accompanied