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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.

Description and Locality.

Vote required for Further amounts the year 1849-50,

required.

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Vote required for

Item

Description and Locality.

the year 1849-50.

Further amounts

required.

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£. S. d. £. Ꭶ . d.

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1 To fit up washing rooms, Murray Barracks

58 481 4 4

Renew girders and floor of upper verandah Enclose Ditto girder and floors soldiers' barracks ditto Ditto ditto hospital Pave lower verandah, guard house,

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Pave lower verandah, officers' quarters, Saiwan Inclose upper verandah, officers' quarters, ditto Pave lower verandah, soldiers' barracks, ditto Renew the ceilings of lower rooms,

£ £. 3. d. 18,532 ļ 5 32 371 17. 2.

£. S. d.

81 10 6

109 2 6

119 3 7

ditto 45 17 11

ditto ditto 240 10

118 17 8

7

79 12 2

139 2 3

ditto

59 2 Tank and water pipes, ditto

335 * 8

Internal whitewashing officers' quarters, ditto

180 15 7

Y 3 Ι 591

Ditto

3 Complete boundary wall, ditto

11 12 1

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Ditto

4 Chamfer the angles of piers, ditto

5 New fives-court, ditto

-$7 15-11- 200 0

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Ditto

hospital, outbuildings, ditto

7 11 5

ditto

2 5

New married soldiers' quarters, ditto

4,500

6 Tank and water pipes to Hospital

370 13 0 0 3 5,000 0 0

60 Casual repairs, ditto

100 0

U At Stanley, additional, about

2,000 0 0

7 Branch pipes to east wing, (D)

27 11 9

8 Ditto west wing, (E)

15 16 9

COMMISSARIAT.

61 9 Enclose verandah, ditto

169 13

New Commissariat store

10 To fit up wash-room, ditto

11 Branch pipes, civil officers' quarters.

12 New guard house, east end of cantonment

13 Renew tiling of roof, North Barracks

83 10 8 9 2 -609-14 1

1,378 14 0

62 3 New bakery

63 64 Boat house

65 Guard house

14 Ditto joists and floor, west half ditto

1,884 7 10

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

Contingencies, Commissariat Department

15 Ditto drains, North Barracks.

221 10 0

16 Fit up washing and bathing rooms, ditto

171 5 6

16 Water pipes to ditto

155 19 11

1,500 0

1,500—0—0

609 6 4 150 0 0

Total £ 21,925 9

40,464 96- 4

9,000 9 0

1,679 12 11 898 16 4 1,001 14 9 170 19 5

17 Verandah, south side Albany Barracks

091 10 9

18 Cut away bank, &c., ditto

110 15 11

19 Covered sewer from ditto

1,007 2 7

20 New barracks to ditto

21 Tank and water pipes, General's house

5,900 -0 -609-2

0 6,000 0 0

(Signed)

22 External painting, ditto

23 Internal varnishing, ditto

·70 08 -09-17 7

24 Iron palisading, &c., south side ditto

170 14

25 Internal whitewashing officers' quarters, Victoria

85 13 7

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

GEORGE PHILLPOTTS, Lieut.-Colonel Commanding Royal Engineers.

Royal Engineers' Office, Hong Kong, May 1, 1849.

251 Ditto soldiers' barracks, ditto

202 17 4

254 Ditto hospitals, ditto

166 6 9

25 Ditto canteen, ditto

6 13 3

26 Ditto outbuildings ditto

12 0 2

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27 Casual repairs ditto

28 Quarters for civil officers, R. E. D.

700 0 0 5,500

2,971 18 *

29 Ditto for Com. Royal Engineers

2,000 せ 2,050 1 3

80 Ditto, Barrack Master

*2,000 1,156 6 4

31 Ditto, principal Medical Officer

2,000 0 * 1,150 6 4

32 Renew lower floor officers' quarters, Stanley

1,260 9 6

Sir,

33 External coloring officers quarters

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334 Ditto hospital

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33 Ditto outbuildings

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344 84 Ditto

35 External painting officers' quarters

Ditto Renew upper floors, officers' quarters

115 8

hospital outbuildings

"40 0

555 11 0

36 Ditto, F. officers' quarters

209 4 7

37 Secure jalousies, officers' quarters

69 7 0

38 Ditto front doors

18 11 7

39 Fixing iron gratings under floors, No. 9, Barrack officer's quarters

12 2 8

40 Cut openings in partition walls, ditto

41 Secure doors and fix gratings under floors of Sappers' quarters

2 15 7

42 Fix gratings ditto, No. 10 barracks

1 10 9

43 Secure jalousies, &c., hospital

64 19 5

44 Ditto doors of ditto

45 Renew girder, upper verandah, guard house

46 Pave lower verandah of ditto

47 Secure jalousies of ditto

15 14 0

48 Internal whitewashing officers' quarters, Stanley

13 16 1

48 Ditto soldiers' barracks, ditto

15 12 4

48 Ditto hospital, ditto

14 4 4

48 Ditto outbuildings, ditto

7 18 8

49 Casual repairs, ditto

200 0 0

18,532 2 5

2 2 6

258 15 9

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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.

(Signed)

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