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PUBLIC RECORD OFFICE

CO 537/197

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Secret Confidential

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253/18 3

26th August 1878.

I am requested by the Colonial Defence Committer to acknowledge the letters dated 19th and 21° receipt of your

August respectively, having reference,

to the defence of Esquimalt and Victoria in Vancouver's Island-

The Committer find

swing

some difficulty,

to the somewhat fragmentary rature

of the report's before them, and in the absence of plans, in arriving at any definits conclusion as to the Efficiency of the works of defence

Construction

The Under Secretary of State

for the Colonies.

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