CO129-010 - Sir Henry Pottinger - 1843 — Page 244

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You will, however, feel. Yourself at full liberty to assign locations for any Marracks, or other Public Buildings, which it is probable will be found necessary for the accommodation of the Troops, large and unexpected. influx of Women and Childon who have recently arrived_ frome burgland, and who have, for the prescut, been comfortably settled in -+- houses which I have had it in

my power to hire for them, at less than a hundredthe part of the expence which it would cost to keep them, to the detriment of their comfort and health, on board this.

have

You are fully informed of the Roads and Buildings which have_

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been already sanctioned and contracted for,

and which

and

are now in

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You are authorized to disburse, from time to time, the sums ___ required for their completion according to the original agreements and Contracts.

regard to any

With

new

further

Public Buildings, they can only be wanted

or Naval. branches of

for the

Military

the

Service, and proposals for their king built

must me

necessarily emanate in the head! of those Departments; - that is, the Officer Commanding the Troops,

Troops, or the

Senior

officer of Her Majesty's Navy, at this Station : __ buk, as past experience has demonstrated,

more economical, to say

that it is far more eco

nothing of the other obvious advantages

beer