CO129-046 - Lieut. Governor Caine & Sir Bowring - 1854 [5-19/8] — Page 83

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the time; and the attached Minutes of their subsequent proceedings will inform your bance how cordially they resented to un propositions.-

This

Ches measures

may explain to

tour Sance in brief to be the grumation

of a

the

a Plunteer Corps from among imrosean inhabitants and the immediate

raising of

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auxiliary Police well

armed and drilled. Both bodies to

& equipsed by the Colonel Commanding the Forces from the Arms and

recoutrements in the Ordnance Store.

and the Auxiliary Force to be paid for by a rate upon the Police Assessment.

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I was

also

necessary

to hire for the

purposes of a Battery the house and garden at West Print Kumon as "Edgers Bumaine,

commanding position and the rule one in the opinion of the Senior Distiller Apiece

which at that extremete of

Trun can k made availabi efficient protection._

the

for

8. I had. besides taken the precaution

of establishing a siqual station at cachi side of the Irland, that during the

during the try

at least the presence of an enemy's

Squaron or of a piratical Fict might be known without delay, and for the out Police Stations, each reinforced by huropean, Arces were purchard that intelligence might k communicad

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