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A considerable number of Quarters for Staff and Departmental Officers and Married Warrant Officers, Non-Commissioned Officers and men, with a view to saving the issue of lodging money, and also the erection of additional Barracks for Asiatic Artillery besides those included in the scheme, in order to avoid hiring, as at present.
This larger Estimate is not, however, submitted as there is little probability of much being done in its direction for many years to come. It appears quite sufficient at the present time to put forward the smaller Estimate, the main object of which is to provide the immediate accommodation required for the increased Garrison, and which shows, as nearly as the Secretary of State for War is able to do in anticipation of finished Plans and Contracts, what is likely to be the burden on the Colony and Imperial Government respectively for providing Barrack Accommodation during the next 8 years.
The obligation to provide the necessary sites would in addition be incumbent on the Colony.
It should be added that, should any sum be received from the Colony on account of the surrender to them of Colonial Military lands at present in the occupation of the War Department, the money thus received would go towards meeting the cost of the works and towards new ... would probably