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Consequently pointed out that if the Military went to Causeway Bay on the understanding that their present establishments, instead of becoming available for Colonial purposes, would be required by the Navy, I was not prepared to say that the Colony would gain sufficiently for it to adhere to its original proposal of providing barracks, etc. at Causeway Bay. This was more particularly so, as in the letter from the War Office dated the 26th of July, inclosed in Your Lordship's despatch above mentioned, it is stated that if the Dockyard remains at Victoria the Naval Authorities would require barracks and the Commissariat Buildings, & at least the greater part thereof, as also Murray Barracks, and perhaps still more War Department property.
General Barker in reply to this mentioned that in addition to the property specially referred to, there was a good deal more in the possession of the Military, such as Murray Battery, Head Quarter House, Victoria Barracks, Spring Gardens, Wellington Barracks, the Arsenal and Magazines, and he considered, roughly speaking, the establishments mentioned in the letter...