"With respect to the description of staff officers that may be required for the service upon Ceylon reference has been made to the establishment that has been usually appro- priated to an equal number of troops, with a proper regard to the local circumstances of the island; and as it appears by the return with which you have furnished me, that eleven of the staff situations, according to the present establishment, are actually filled by there can be no doubt that a considerable reduction may take place without five persons, inconvenience to the public service.
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Having stated to you the principle upon which the Ceylon staff has been formed, and having given that principle a very liberal construction, I transmit the paper marked D), containing the detail of the future establishment; and I am to convey to you His Majesty's express orders, that no additional allowances whatsoever should be made to any of the officers therein specified, nor any former allowances be continued, or new office created without express authority for that purpose from this Department.
"When the accounts of your Government shall show that you are enabled to make the necessary provision for the charges of the Civil and Military Departments, I shall have great pleasure in recommending to His Majesty the plans which you have suggested for facilitating communication by opening of canals, for draining the marshes with the design of bringing tracts, which are now unproductive, under cultivation, and for every other mode of improvement to which your indefatigable zeal has led you to direct your views, and which it would be most desirable to enter upon, if the revenues of Ceylon were of an amount to admit of such an appropriation; but in their present séste, exhibiting a deficit of near 200,000l. a year, and this at a period when my predecessor, a appears in his latter to you of 13th March 1801, had calculated that the receipts would probably cover all the expenses of the establishment, with the surplus applicable to the pay of three European regiments, I find myself compelled to direct, in the most express terms, that you do not authorize any work to be undertaken that shall not be of absolute and urgent necessity."
COLONIAL ESTABLISHMENT FOR MILITARY PURPOSES
(from Ceylon Estimates for 1864).
£ 1. ¿
L. d.
General and Garrium Stuff-Major General.
14 8 0
1 cangany
24 0 0
$8 8 0
-
2 messengers at 19%, ench
Assistant Military Goerolery,
Head clerk Second n
·
"
"
Third Fourth
Lassenger
Head clerk
180 0 0 120 0
75 0
0 0
50 0
10 16 0
406 16 0
Deputy-Adjutant Gmeral.
120 0
111 0 0
10 16 0
241 16 0
Asistent Quartermaster Gmeral.
190 0 0
2 clerks at 75%, and 36% Messenger
Head clerk Second "
First draughtsman and clerk Second Messenger
"
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75 0 0 100 0
0
50 0 0
10 16 0
855 16 0
Total General Staff
1,041 16 0
EXTRACT of a Despatch from Earl BATHURST to Lieut.-General the Hon. Sir EnwanD PAGET, dated Downing Street, 21st August 1821.
"From the access which you have had to my correspondence with your predecessors in the Government, you must be well aware that it has been for some years past the anxious wish of His Majesty's Government in the first place to squalize the revenue and expenditure of the Colony; and in the second, to render its resources available for the relief of the mother country by ultimately transferring to the colonial establish- ment those military charges which have up to this period been provided exclusively by the Parliament of Great Britain. It is needless to enter into a detail of the events which have prevented the accomplishment of these wishes at an earlier period. I am happy to find that, by a Despatch which I have received from Sir Edward Barnes, that the Årst of these objects has been already accomplished, and that so far from there having been any occasion during the year ending February 1891 to draw bills on the Treasury to make up the deficiency of revenue, the island has relieved itself of debt previously incurred to the amount of nearly 20,0001. sterling. Sir Edward Barnes has no hesitation in pro- nouncing his anticipation for the future to correspond entirely with his experienos of the past, and he expresses an opinion that in the year 1993 the surplus revenue will be so considerable as to afford essential relief to the finance of this country.
Clerk
Gerriam Staf, Colombo.
#lamplighters at 10%. 16x. esch
Pay off pioneers employed to keep clean the Guard
Room, &c. at 91, each
Clark
Lam
Clark
9 lamplighters at 91. and 61. 15a.
Garrison Staff,
50 0 0
91 18 0
18 0 0
Garrison Stuff, Trincomalee.
Lamplighter
Garrison Sief, JAS
4 10
Garrison Staff, Galle.
30 0 0
1 1 0
46 16 0
49 14 0
12 0 0
14 0
Total Garrison Shall
Modian! Staf
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at 75%. and SEL
180
111
sears, 4 at 105, 16%.
48 4 0
Clark, at Sa. 4d. per day Lamplighter
10 18
PUBLIC RECORD OFFICE
Reference :-
C.O.882
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Royal Engineer Department, Colombo.
Head clerk
2 clerks at 75%. each
at 501. "
Draughtsman
Superintendent and Interpreter
? Assistant Superintendents at 362 each
Master carpenter
Master masON
Peon protecting military grounds from trespass by
cattle
Messenger
Royal Engineer Department, Kandy.
2 superintendents at 562. 19s, each, or %s, a day Master smith
"
carpenter
IRBON
1 additional superintendent
Extra clerk at 5s, a day
Royal Engineer Department, Glale.
1 peon protecting military grounds from trespass by
cattle
Total Royal Enginer Department -
£ a ¿
120 0 0
160 0 0
100 0 0
76 0 0
90 0 0
72 0 0
48 0 0
48 0 0
10 16 0
10 16 0
724 18 0
73 4
0
45 0 0
45 0 0
0 0
45
60 0 0
54 18 0
823 2 0
Ceylon Rifle Regiment.
First clam schoolmaster at 4s, per
diem
3 Caffre women at 18s, each
0
d
1,056 14
0
73 4 0
914
0
75 18 0
Total Ceylon Rifle Regiment -
Native Troops.
Gun Lasoar Corps.
I lieutenant and adjutant at 7a 10d. a day Island allowance
-
2 jemidars at 2s. id. each a day
143 7 0
160 0 0
85:8 0
82 0- 6
1 serjeant-major at la. 9d. a day
4 serjeants at 1a 6jd, sach a
day
6 corporals at la. Opd. each a day
112 17 0
152 10 0
9 drummers at 1142 each a day
160 privates at 11d each a day
Good conduct and additional pay for long service
Fer stationery and clerk to let and 2nd divisions
Total Gun Lascar Corps
Royal Artillery,
4 pioneers at 91. each
2nd Battalion, 25th Begiment.
20 pioneers at 91. sach
35 1 6
2,684 0 0
250 0 0
17 0 0
General total
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