Appendix No. 4.
MAURITIUS.
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ANNUAL OUTLAY.
£
£
£
Naval contingent
Military contingent
15,000
15,000
15,000
27,367
27,367
27,367
Ditto, ditto, if Officer Commanding Royal Artillery's suggestion of 160 instead of 120 men Royal Artillery is accepted
•
Military contingent, if police are not reorganized,
1,200
and 300 additional infantry are sent
..
15,000
42,367
43,567
57,367
(A.)—-CUREPIPE, MAURITIUS.
Approximate Estimate for Additional Barrack and Hospital Accommodation.
(The existing accommodation is as follows:-Barrack accommodation, 2 officers, 2 non-commis- sioned officers, and 60 men; hospital accommodation, 16 beds.)
£
Erection of quarters for 12 officers, including mess-room, kitchen, &c.
barracks for 256 men, with the necessary outbuildings
quarters for 12 married families, with necessary outbuildings guard-room, prisoners' room, and cells, &c...
5,000
25,600
2,400
1,800
hospital for 24 beds, and including the requisite offices, &c. Levelling of sites, and forming roads and parades, &c. ..
7,200
1,000
Total
43,000
(Signed)
C. G. GORDON, Colonel, Commanding Royal Engineer.
GORDON,
August 18, 1881, (Signed)
C. G. GORDON, Lieutenant-Colonel, R.E.,
Brevet-Colonel, President.
(B.)—EXTRACT of Return showing the Value of War Department property at Mauritius on the 1st March 1872, as forwarded to War Office with Commanding Royal Engineer's Report, dated the 1st March, 1872, in reply to War Office letter of the 19th December, 1871.
1. Royal Artillery barracks and mess, Port Louis 2. Commissariat buildings, Place d'Armes
3. Military Hospital, Port Louis
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Estimated Value.
£
•
7,500
..
10,000
15,000
32,500
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(Signed)
Total
(Signed)
C. G. GORDON, Colonel, Commanding Royal Engineer.
C. G. GORDON, Lieutenant-Colonel, R.E., and
Brevet-Colonel, President.
(C.)-NAVAL CONTINGENT.
Approximate Cost and Detail.
OFFICERS.
1 Commander, pay, command pay, and light money
4 Lieutenants, pay, command, and light money
4 Sub-Lieutenants, pay and store allowance
4 gunners or boatswains, pay, light, and store allowance
4 engineers, pay and charge money
Total cost per annum, without provisions
PETTY OFFICERS AND MEN. Approximate cost of one gun-boat, consisting of 16 able and ordinary seamen, 4 seamen petty officers, 6 for steam departments, carpenters, cooks, stewards, &c., per annum.
Total wages of 4 gun-boats.. Provisions for 154 persons per annum, at 1s. 6d. per diem
MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS. Navigating pay, Commander's lodging and servants, badge pay, gunnery pay, and one 1st class steward, and allow. ances. per annum..
Add, if a Paymaster R.N. is required, including allowances,
per annum
垄 s. d.
£ s. d.
451 13
9
1,131 10 0
474 10 0
480 11 8
t
803 0 0
3,341 5 5
(
1,145 15
0
.4,583 0 0
4,215 15
0
f
731 13 4
€
400 0
0
SIGNAL STAFF FOR SIX STATIONS.
1 Lieutenant, pay, subsistence money, and servant
234 4 2
1 chief foreman, 6 yeomen, 13 signalmen, including badge
pay, subsistence money, &c., per annum
1,265 6 8
T
1,499 10 10
Total approximate estimate
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14,771 4
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