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Exchequer i.e. the Colony would have to pay the whole cost of its garrison. The Committee in 1888 reported that "they understand the broad general principle to have been that the Colonial Government was to defray the full cost of the garrison actually required for its defence."
In 1866, the estimated cost of the marrison was fixed at £59,300, and that sum was to be paid annually for a period of 5 years. In 1871 the position was reviewed and the Colony was also called upon to provide barracks for the garrison, and the cost of works, armaments and torpedo defences.
The 1888 Committee keeping on the same lines recommended a fixed annual payment calculated on the estimated average cost for quinquennial periods which was mudi- fied by is Majesty's Government so that the fixed
ayment was slightly reduced in favour of the Colony. The financial position of the Straits did not then permit the payment of the full cost.
The position was again reviewed by the Committee of 1895: and the sugestion of Sir C.B.Mitchell, (then the Governor) was adopted, that the Colon should pay & fixed percentage of its revenue, provided that the sum paid should not exceed the total cost of the
garrison.
The arrangement then made was that the Colony should pay 17% of gross revenue, deducting proceeds of land
sales, and should also pay for capital expenditure on
lands and buildings and lodging allowances. It was
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