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-honour to transmit further papers, showing the new claims advanced by the Naval and Military Departments. An apparently unavoidable delay has taken place in the preparation of some of these documents.
From the enclosed letter (Enclosure 1, with plan) from Vice-Admiral Willes, C.B., it will be seen that he claims, among other things, that the present Artillery Barracks should be ceded by the Military to the Naval Department. To such cession, it will be seen, the Military Authorities strongly object.
3. The new claims of the Military Department are shown in the annexed letter with enclosures, from Major-General Cargent, C.B., transmitting a copy of his report to the Secretary of State for War (Enclosure 3, with plan).
4. I transmit herewith a further report from the Surveyor-General showing that the new claims advanced would entail an expenditure of not less than nineteen thousand pounds (£19,000) in addition to the sum of forty-five thousand pounds (£45,000) required for the
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