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reduction last sear of the appointment of

Assistant Adjutant and

Quarter Master General,

Yectant appointment of Fort Adjusant

the

was made

by authority from home, a Brigade Major being abready allowed. The Brigade Major in addition to his staff duties, commands tie companies of the Ceylon Rifles Albany Barracks, there king only other effective Caplain with the beeps here,

He also acts as Pag-

Paymaster, being

in the

or re

considered

Cu

the

by his commanding officer the best qualified for that duty, no Paymaster being strengths of the companies here

Commissariat.

car

In the Commissariat

21.0

reduction

be made ; all payments to the bivil

services,

and the supplies

Tary of the latter being Department. It is true that

and Army,

conducted by

officer acted. as

blief during

a-

that

- junior

the last

" ten months, but had he fallen sick,

the duties of this important Department must have devolved upon a Clerk -

Medical Depaitinent

In the Medical Department I

consider it most essential to have

an

essentia experienced chief accustomed to the diseases

of a tropical climate. During the last -year a Surgeon of the 2nd be Surgeon for the

been wanting

95 the

Blaj,

and

Regiment have

to complete the Medical- staffs here, but there have been two

supernumerary "thlaff Assistant Surgeons,

of whom I found

one

the other has since:

my

arrival, and

e joined, and I have

had no order to remove

remove them; indeed, their

services could not have been dispensed. with during the recent fever

ere the

a garrison.

Civil Branch of the Ordnance Department

With regard

regard to this Depactuant,

I am not prepared to give are opsinion, further than that from the quantity of