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to your encular
: the 20th march 1878
te defence of the Colony
outbreak of war
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= Fransmit a report "equest of Governor
Stoker Commanding
tion to the defence of
the Gold Coast.
Unerally in the views report; as regards the
which Captain staker
chaut 's stores of spirito
793
being
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being placed in positions of safety, I am advised that without special mnactment on the subject the Government has no legal power of compelling the removal of the spirits unless during
war and in the event of the settlement
being actually threatened, and I fear
that even if it possessed such power, the carrying out of a measure of this nature would be attended with very Considerable expense. The removal of
the gunpowder in the stores (for which there are already statutory powers) would be much less difficult.
3. The Channel by which Lagos is approached from the sea is of such nature
Aud
that the removal of the buoys landmarks, or the placing of fictitious
buoys
and prohibiting the Piloto to
give
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