CO129-119 - Public Offices - 1866 — Page 104

affear to. It femeral pul to

be waliofiore forf

As

do the

regards

na n

ber of

men to be stationed at the

Mint I

am

to observe that

in order to carry out Sir R.

Blae Dour (l's valid of having

daily. Guard of

10

12 men

would be necessary to station

men in the

60 or fo Barracks

The

idea wheel it wadil

intended to co

in the

Conory in

letter from this effice dated 8th

083

that about thay lack of kar

1740 20 men always present on that spot, would miffion for the pinpose, not that a grand

20 men should always

of.

be

on

1

on dirty, as supported by the

Governor.

"It affears however to St Jeneral Peel that

the

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number actually necessarch for

the Mint must- the protection of the that be so dependent upon local

circumstaners, that he cannot pretend to determine with. and precision the strength of the detachment, which should be stationed there.

With regard to the estimate

out the additions

for carrying that in me in fest by Colonel, Lovell, R.E., Sofineral Peel has no observations to offer, except that be considers it desirable that a strip of land should

be