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the extent of £ 2,800 fer
the same time
and I at
suggested further retrenchments
to the extent of £1800 yearly.
Expenditure.
The Military Expenditure of this felony Military is wholly depayed by the Army and orduance betiniates. The reduction of the Military- hetablishment and staff from a fields force to the seale of a garrison will this year effect an important retrenchment in expence, which with be assieted by the change from Indian allowances to ordinary Colonial pay..
Some of the most important military works, as the Barracks and Stospital, have been completed. On the town and harbour side two open batteries have been constructed, one at the East. sea-pout of the Cantonment, mounting nine and another
upon Government. Hill on the west land- front of the Cantonment, which mounts Six Guns-
The
Juns,
only
Publie
Waks.
remaining defence to be constructed towards the water on this side is a large battery of fifteen Juses à fleur d'eau, to command the whole harbour, the site for which is now levelling.
The Expenditure on account of Public-
Works during the
ensuing
be comparatively large.
twelve-mouths will
on account of the
Building for the Public
offices, hetimated at £14,500. to be executed by the Ordnance Department-.
The works already in progress,
or of which the Reports and Retimates have been sanctioned by
Her Majesty's Government, comprice nearly all that are required. by the early exigencies of this
exception of a
·Colony, with the Court-house, which is at
present rented, and of a Government. House, which I have left to the last...
In my report of last year I stated. that a good road extended within five iniles of the circumference of the whole
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