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the office commanding Royal Engineers to obtain from him a plan of a loop-boted
enclosure wall to as more
fully set forth in
The Governor the accompanying letter sould therefore feel obliged by that letter being referred to Colonel Lovell with a
a
view to the latter's offering such suggestions
ao
he
may
-consider expedient.
At the same time His Excellency Sir Richard Graves MacDonnell wishes
the General
to understand that the
enclosed letter makes no di
difference in
This previous views as to the necefsity
for
a Europion guard - and for Barracks
to accommodate them,
When Sord Heartington states that
guard of 20 Men Necessary,
The considers a
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he implies thereby the necessity of providing Barrack accommodation for the number of men required to furnish that guard, because it would be wholly inconsistent with the Instruction previously received by His Excellency and by the General. unmaparty to expose British troops to the deleterious effect of this climate by marching them from
all weather to mount
a distance in
d at the Mink
guard.
as would be necessary- if Barracks were not provided for them in that place.
In
print of fact it is not. contemplated by His Excelling that
the Europease grard on duty at one time
should ever amount to 20 men -
Banack accommodation
ao.
for bb only is
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