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C.O. 882

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PUBLIC RECORD OFFICE, LONDON

|ALLY WITHOUT PERMISSION OF THE BE REPRODUCED PHOTOGRAPHIC-

COPYRIGHT PHOTOGRAPH-NOT TO

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Enclosure 16

ABSTRACT of the Barrack Estimate for Hong Kong originally proposed to be expended during the year 1849-50, shewing by alterations in red ink the amounts subsequently omitted in compliance with the M. G. and B. order of 22nd September last.

Item

Description and Locality.

50

51

52

53

Item

Description and Locality.

Vote required for the year 1849-50.

Further amounta required.

54

55

Ditto

ditto

58

Brought forward Pave lower verandab, officers' quarters, Saiwan Inclose upper verandah, officers' quarters, ditto Pave lower verandah, soldiers' barracks, ditto Renew the ceilings of lower rooms, ditto Ditto girder and floors soldiers' barracks ditto

hospital Pave lower verandab, guard house,

*

119

53

Vote required for

the year 1849–50.

£. 4.

18,532 2 5

–98,271–17—–—–—&

81 10 R

109 8 6

8 7 45 17 11

Further amounts required.

d.

£. 4

d

240 10 8

ditto

118 17 7

ditto

£.

d.

£.

d.

57

58

1

To fit up washing rooms, Murray Barracks

2

Tank and water pipes,

ditto

3

Complete boundary wall,

ditte

4

Chamfer the angles of piere,

ditto

5

New fives-court,

ditto

481 4 4 835 € 8 193:18.9 2167.15 1H

200

50

Renew girders and floor of upper verandah Enclose Internal whitewashing officers' quarters, ditto

79 12 189 2 8

ditto

180 15 7

7 8

I

591

59

Ditto Ditto

soldiers' barracks, ditto

1 19

1

59

Ditto

hospital, outbuildings,

ditto

7 11 5

ditto

2 7 7

0.

54

New married soldiers' quarters, ditto

4,500 0 0

5,600 0 0

80

Casual repairs,

ditto

100 0 0

6

Tank and water pipes to Hospital

370 13

| At Stanley, additional, about.

3

7

Branch pipes to east wing, (D)

27 11 9

8

Ditto

west wing, (E)

15 16 9

9

10

11

Enclose verandah, ditto

To fit up wash-room, ditto

Branch pipes, civil officers' quarters.

169 18 7

85 10 3

12

13

14

Ditto joists and floor, west half ditto

Renew tiling of roof, North Barracks

New guard house, east end of cantonment

15

16

16

17

Verandah, south

Water pipes to ditto

outh side Albany Barracke

18

Cat away bank, &c.,

ditto

19

Covered sewer from

ditto

20

New barracks to

'ditto

21

Tank and water pipes, General's house

22

External painting,

'ditto

23

Internal varnishing,

'dilto

24

Iron palisading p., Aquth side ditto

25

251

Ditto

Ditto drains, North Barracks

Fit up washing and bathing rooms, ditto

Internal whitewashing officers' quarters, Victoria

soldiers' barracks,

8 9 2

-683-144 1.4.

1,378 14 0

1,884 7 10

901–180.

171 5 & 155 19 11 801-10-0 110 15 11 W 1,007 -2

5,000 ◊ ◊

| 5.

78 22

63–17 7

170 14 5.

COMMISSARIAT.

61

New Commissariat store

62

New bakery

63

64

Boat house

65

Guard house

60

Coal, wood store, cooperage, coolies' room, &c.

Contingencies, Commissariat Department

3,500

***

Total.

£

130 0 0

21,925 9 -40,404-

2,000 0 0

1,679 12 11

898 18 1,001 14 170 19

4

9

5

8,000

0 0

(Signed)

No decision has yet been received respecting any of these items.

GEORGE PHILLPOTTS,

Royal Engineers' Office, Hong Kong,

May 1, 1849.

Lieut.-Colonel Commanding Royal Engineers.

85 13 7

ditto

202 17 4

25

Ditto

"hospitals,

ditto

166 6

9

251

Ditto

ditto

6 13 0

Enclosure 17.

26

Ditto

outbuildings

ditto

12 0 2

27

Casual repairs

ditto

700

0 0

28

Quarters for civil officers, R. E. D.

2,971 18 7

2,050 1

3

29

Ditto for Com. Royal Engineers

30

Ditto, Barrick Master

9,000-00

1,156 6

31

Ditto, principal Medical Officer

1,156 6 4

32

Renew lower floor officers' quarters, Stanley

1,280, 9

6

Sir,

33

External coloring officers quarters

331

Ditto honital

33

34

External painting officere quarters

311

341

35

Ditto "outbuildings

Ditto

Ditto

Renew upper floors, officers' quarters

hospital

outbuildings

555 11 0

36

Ditto,

F. oufoors quarters

209 4 7

37

Secure jalousies, omcers quar

09 7 0

quarters

38

Ditto front doors

18 11 7

39

40

Cut openings in partition walle, ditto

Fixing iron gratings under floors, No. 9, Barrack

officer's quarters

12 2

8

41

Secure doors and fix gratings under floors of Sappers'

quartere

2 15 7

42

Fix gratings ditto, No. 10 barracks

1 10 9

43

Sooute jalousies, 8cc., hospital

64 19 5

44

Ditto doors of ditto

2 2 3

45

Renew girder, upper verandalı, guard house

258 15 9

48

Pave lower verandah of ditto

51 27

47

Secure jalousies of ditto

15 14 0

48

Internal whitewashing officers' quarters, Stanley

13 16 1

481

Ditto

soldiers' barraoka, ditto

15 12

4

481

Ditto

hospital,

ditto

14

4

48

Ditto

outbuildings,

ditto

7 18

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Mr. Bonham to Major-General Staveley.

Victoria, Hong Kong, March 12, 1849.

WITH reference to our late inspection of the military barracks at Stanley, and to the dilapidated state of the principal portions of the buildings, and with a view to saving all unnecessary expense in this colony, I consider it my duty to acquaint you, that so far as the civil government of the island is concerned, it does not appear to me that, under ordinary circumstances, it can be requisite to maintain a greater force than one company at Stanley; and having recently received a communication from the Right Honorable Her Majesty's Principal Secretary of State for the Colonies, relative to the strength of this garrison, I feel satisfied, that in times of peace its strength is not likely to be augmented.

Under these circumstances I deem it proper to record my opinion, that on no account should any outlay of public money be incurred at Stanley beyond what may be required for barrack accommodation for one company of troops; and if it be in contemplation to incur immediate expenditure for the repair of public buildings there beyond what may be required for that force, I would earnestly suggest its being suspended until a reference can be made to the Earl Grey, whose despatch by the last mail, relative to the expenses of this colony, you may remember particularly called my attention to the public works and buildings.

I have, &c,

S. G. BONHAM.

49

Casual repairs,

ditto

200 0 0

(Signed)

18,532 2

Carried forward

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Enclosure 18.

DETAIL of Guards mounted by the Troops at Victoria.

Guarda.

Sergeants.

Corporals.

Drummers.

Privates.

Sergeants.

Corporals.

Drummers.

Privates.

Corpe.

95th Regiment.

Commism.rist store and Provost.

Treasury

Hospital

Governor'a

Major-Generals

Regimental

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-

1

❤

1

1

WA

1

6

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1

1

1

20.

7

1

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