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nance and repairs of all the corps de gardesthe city Yaletta..

Annual Expenditure, on an average of tenyears, from 1779 to 1788

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Maltese Money. English Money.Crowns. T. G. £. s. d.

in

• 2,826 3 6 . 282 12 6

Article XXYI.

Fortifications.

The maintenance and repairs of all the fortifi-cations in Malta, and the dependencies thereof. . 11 2

1,952 6 16

846 2 5

Article XXIX.

Goza, and the Towers in that Island.

This article included the appointments of thegovernor of Goza, and his lieutenant, as alsothose of different persons acting as overseers of theguard at the castles and towers of that island ; withother expences relative to the maintenance ofthose who did duty at the towers in Malta. . 1,439 0 0

Article XXX.

Ordnance and other Arms.

This article regarded the purchase and found-ing of cannon, the making of carriages for ditto,the purchase of arms; in short, the annual costof every thing necessary for keeping up the ord-nance and small arms. . 15,4611014

Article XXVII. and XXVIII.

Castles of St. Elmo and St. Angelo.

The expences of these two forts consisted inthe pay of the old soldiers or invalids who didduty, in the maintenance of the corps de gardes,and every thing relative to the service of the twocastles.

f St. Elmo ......

C.St. Angelo ......

Castles

1,276 9 0

195 19 2

84 12 .5

143 18 0

1,546 3 9

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