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parties of artillery permanently

6

stationed

at every battery to keep them in order, theis cutailing a considerable annual charge the public revenue " " they

fee no reason.

Why ordinary caretakers should not suffice for the charge of the heavier guns, nor do they

apprehend greater

wisk

quees, nords

of damage than would be the case with a different armament_

a risk against which in Either case there should be no difficulty in guarding.

Mere

would be no appreciable difference in the cost of maintaining the batteries, whichever description of orduance were mounted -

The real difference of Expense may be said to be exclusively in the first cost of the armament, and to far from its being

au

to substitute the cheaper orduance,,

кономр it would in the opinion of the Committee be

little better than a wasteful expenditure

Money

to purchase quer,

which when

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