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protection afforded to the Colony.

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59th Regiment.

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to 3 Sergeants

18 Privates, and I must beg

of Zour Lordships to understand

that I am

that

not prepared to Jazy

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do

more; still,

it must be obvious, if the

Troops cannot afford further assistance in and

the Civil

Government, that the present

force is not only very expensive

comparatively useless. –

but

3.

This

matter of course has

from time to time presented itself

mind, more

to

my when I see

the

the

expense

m

especially

enormous

State is put to

account of the military

$

It is not, however, my

Lord, to the expense of ho

Payment of the Troops that I object, but to the contingent

Ordnance Department

charges (of the

particular) arising out of

their

presence. _ In the concluding

part of my Private Letter of

the 28th December Cast

subject,

on

this

I hinted that I thought

it possible that

an application

for additional Barrack room

would be

be made

made, and I

now

enclose, for Your Lordship's

information, Copy of the Preadings

Committee of Survey held

of a

certain

Buildings called

the Albany Barracks._