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Appendix No. 4.

MAURITIUS.

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ANNUAL OUTLAY.

£

£

£

Naval contingent

Military contingent

15,000

15,000

15,000

27,367

27,367

27,367

Ditto, ditto, if Officer Commanding Royal Artillery's suggestion of 160 instead of 120 men Royal Artillery is accepted

•

Military contingent, if police are not reorganized,

1,200

and 300 additional infantry are sent

..

15,000

42,367

43,567

57,367

(A.)—-CUREPIPE, MAURITIUS.

Approximate Estimate for Additional Barrack and Hospital Accommodation.

(The existing accommodation is as follows:-Barrack accommodation, 2 officers, 2 non-commis- sioned officers, and 60 men; hospital accommodation, 16 beds.)

£

Erection of quarters for 12 officers, including mess-room, kitchen, &c.

barracks for 256 men, with the necessary outbuildings

quarters for 12 married families, with necessary outbuildings guard-room, prisoners' room, and cells, &c...

5,000

25,600

2,400

1,800

hospital for 24 beds, and including the requisite offices, &c. Levelling of sites, and forming roads and parades, &c. ..

7,200

1,000

Total

43,000

(Signed)

C. G. GORDON, Colonel, Commanding Royal Engineer.

GORDON,

August 18, 1881, (Signed)

C. G. GORDON, Lieutenant-Colonel, R.E.,

Brevet-Colonel, President.

(B.)—EXTRACT of Return showing the Value of War Department property at Mauritius on the 1st March 1872, as forwarded to War Office with Commanding Royal Engineer's Report, dated the 1st March, 1872, in reply to War Office letter of the 19th December, 1871.

1. Royal Artillery barracks and mess, Port Louis 2. Commissariat buildings, Place d'Armes

3. Military Hospital, Port Louis

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Estimated Value.

£

•

7,500

..

10,000

15,000

32,500

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(Signed)

Total

(Signed)

C. G. GORDON, Colonel, Commanding Royal Engineer.

C. G. GORDON, Lieutenant-Colonel, R.E., and

Brevet-Colonel, President.

(C.)-NAVAL CONTINGENT.

Approximate Cost and Detail.

OFFICERS.

1 Commander, pay, command pay, and light money

4 Lieutenants, pay, command, and light money

4 Sub-Lieutenants, pay and store allowance

4 gunners or boatswains, pay, light, and store allowance

4 engineers, pay and charge money

Total cost per annum, without provisions

PETTY OFFICERS AND MEN. Approximate cost of one gun-boat, consisting of 16 able and ordinary seamen, 4 seamen petty officers, 6 for steam departments, carpenters, cooks, stewards, &c., per annum.

Total wages of 4 gun-boats.. Provisions for 154 persons per annum, at 1s. 6d. per diem

MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS. Navigating pay, Commander's lodging and servants, badge pay, gunnery pay, and one 1st class steward, and allow. ances. per annum..

Add, if a Paymaster R.N. is required, including allowances,

per annum

垄 s. d.

£ s. d.

451 13

9

1,131 10 0

474 10 0

480 11 8

t

803 0 0

3,341 5 5

(

1,145 15

0

.4,583 0 0

4,215 15

0

f

731 13 4

€

400 0

0

SIGNAL STAFF FOR SIX STATIONS.

1 Lieutenant, pay, subsistence money, and servant

234 4 2

1 chief foreman, 6 yeomen, 13 signalmen, including badge

pay, subsistence money, &c., per annum

1,265 6 8

T

1,499 10 10

Total approximate estimate

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