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a

constant presence of president body of

Soldiers must give additional security and confidence

10.

What I have had to

consider therefore _ for I put out

question the idea

of

of the

adequately protecting the Mint with a Guard taken from the present Police Force is the rinkt which either from real or insecurity I would by stopping

fancied

the erection

of

the

proposed

Barracks be exposing the success of a project in which the Colony has inverted so large amount of it's capital for the

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cost of the Mint up to this date is no less than $310,000- and I am not prepared to jeopardise that expenditure by withholding (my sanction from

of

am

outlay

the comparatively small sum

1:7 $20,000.

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My despatch N.3 of

FOR 26th distant will apprise you

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quite aware of

the

that

the necessity

for husbanding the resources of the Colony- but nevertheless I consider it highly inexpedient to diminish in any way

the

proposed accommodation for a Guard at the Mint. It is for

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