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Appendix No. 4.

SIERRA LEONE.

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SEA DEFENCES.

Look-out Point Battery-

5 10-in. R.M.L. guns barbette

58

Works.

Armament.

£

£

28,000

18,900

2 64-prs.

King Tom's Point Battery-

2 shielded

3 10-in. R.M.L. guns

2 64-prs.

1 barbette

25,500

11,700

Falconbridge Point Battery-

4 10-in. R.M.L. guns, shielded

2 64-prs.

•

Farran Point Battery-

3 10-in. R.M.L. guns, barbette

1 64-pr.

West Battery-

}

Preparing existing work for musketry fire

Tower Hill Fort--

LAND WORKS.

:

Inclosing and connecting magazine with main work, pro- viding loopholes and banquettes to the fort where required

1.

•

Four towers, with 1 20-pr. B.L. gun to each Emplacements on spurs below Jamaica Hill and Wilber-

force

..

..

Military roads or paths through bush, 3 miles 12 mountain guns Barracks for 800 men

..

•

TOTAL.

*

..

•

Works..

-

Armament Barracks

:::

Grand total

..

(Signed)

March 20, 1882.

The Inspector-General of Fortifications.

33,500

15,300

16,600

11,250

30

!

1,000

6,000

1,600

100

500

3,000

80,000

£

痛

111,250

61,750

80,000

253,000

G. PHILIPS, Lieutenant-Colonel, R.E., and Colonel

Commanding Royal Engineers, St. Helena.

Sir,

Inclosure 2 in No. 5.

Mr. Griffith to Lieutenant-Colonel Philips.

Colonial Secretariat, Sierra Leone, February 7, 1882.

I AM directed by his Excellency the Governor-in-chief to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of this date, requesting information as to the assistance, in connection with the defences which might be expected in time of war from local levies at Sierra Leone and the Gambia.

I am requested to state, in reply, that no assistance could be relied on at either this Settlement or that of the Gambia, in the form of a Militia or Volunteer force.

There is a well-armed police force at Sierra Leone, numbering some 280 men. About 150 of this number are stationed in Freetown.

The only assistance which this Government can expect is from friendly adjoining tribes, in the vent of a bush war against other native tribes.

I have, &c.

(Signed)

T. RISELY GRIFFITH,

No. 6.

Colonial Secretary and Treasurer.

Colonial Office to Royal Commission on the Defence of British Possessions and Commerce Abroad.

Downing Street, June 12, 1882.

Sir,

I AM directed by the Earl of Kimberley to transmit to you, to be laid before the Royal Commis- sion on the Defence of British Possessions and Commerce Abroad, a copy of a letter from the War

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