CO129-017 - Sir John Davis - 1846 [7-12] — Page 186

a small

a separate Magistrate . The essential ends of protection with reference to the populations of Aberdeen (a rapidly increasing station) appeared to be equally attainable at much les expense, by erecting military station, and manning it by a detachment of about 30 troops, as resolved in the

t Executive Council of 28th April last. The native

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population will be under the management of their own local Constables, under Ordinance No 13 of 1044 .

As the great expense of an additional body 4 police for Aberdeen is thus saved, and as Major Aldrich's Plan and Estimate for a defensible "Barrack does not greatly exceed in first cost the Report and Estimate for a Police Station, Gaol,

and Magistrate's House already sanctioned by Her Majesty's Government, but not executed, it was agreed in the Executive Council of the 9th instant that the work now submitted, in lien there of, should carried out, withent the generally indispensuble

of a previous reference home, in order

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especially to save the dry and faveable building-

season, now about to set in.

The

:same reasons do not.

altogether apply to the immediate construction of a precisely similar work, on the same plan and Estimate, at a position called Fytam, which will be observed (in the Ordnance Map of Hongkong), at the confluence of the three Roads leading from Victoria, Stanley, and Sarivan; being just equidistant between the two last named posts. On account of the present unprotected nature of that position, (where some atrocious murders and robberies have been perpetrated), it would be extremely desirable, with a view to save any augmentation of the Colonial Police, te station a small body of at Tytam, which would complete the chain of eligible military posts round the istane

I have ace

30 men

accordingly to recommend to Your

Lordship, that Ibe authorized to order the execution

of this work, also, on the Plan and Estimate

now