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charge to the available allotted funds on the

Military Works Loan representing the War Department

share and leave the Colonial contribution to be duly

recovered in amual instalments as they accrue through

the Secretary of State for the Colonies under whose

security for them the War Department will run no risk

of ultimate loss, as he commands at all times an

official majority in the Colonial Government.

10.

It will appear that should this course be

approved the Barracks will be finished years earlier

than they otherwise would be, while the final adjust-

ment of accounts between the War Department and the

Colony will be deferred till the end of the 10 years

allowed by the agreement between the respective

Secretaries of State.

11. I would observe that a considerable incident-

al advantage in the above proposals is this that

when the successive items are paid for in the first

instance by the W.D. we shall be enabled to obtain all

stores as usual through the I.G.F. This is the case

of those items paid for by the Colony we are at present

debarred from doing. By demanding them from the W.D.

Contractor we shall obtain them quicker, cheaper, and

of the regulation pattern.

12.