_Morant-Bay._ A new barrack now building at the expense of the
aforesaid parish of St.-Thomas-in-the-East for twenty-five men.
_Yallahs Bay._ A large house with proper conveniencies belonging to
Mr. Donaldson, already hired for a barrack, to receive twenty-five
men.
_Cow-Bay._ A barrack for twenty men going to be built, by Mr. Vallete,
in the room of the former barrack destroyed by the hurricane.
_Westmoreland._ A barrack already built, capable of receiving a whole
company, situate at Savanna-la-Mar, as informed by Mr. Hall.
_St. Ann’s._ A barrack now building at St. Ann’s Bay, and is
calculated to be a crutched house, wattled and plastered, and capable
to receive fifty men, as informed by Mr. Whitehorne.
_Moneague._ A barrack which now lodges twenty men, and capable of
holding thirty; is at present water-tight, but will soon want new
shingling, as informed by lieutenant Troah.
_Vere._ The barrack was blown down in the late hurricane but the
parish has agreed with Mr. Pusey for his storehouse in Carlisle Bay,
which is boarded, shingled and in good order and capable to receive
one hundred men.
_St. Elizabeth._ A barrack situate at Black-River; it being a crutched
house, wattled and plastered, injured by the storm, but is now ordered
by the parish to be repaired.
_St. James._ A barrack at St. James, of a hundred feet long and twenty
feet wide, with a stone wall, a framed roof, well shingled, in good
order, which will completely contain fifty men as informed by Mr.
Hall.
_Hanover._ A barrack situate at Lusea-Fort, which will be capable of
receiving fifty men; a crutched house, wattled, plastered and
thatched, in good order; and a convenient house for the reception of
four officers, well shingled and floored.
_Port Antonio._ A barrack in good order, which now lodges one company,
and will soon be in a condition to receive another, by the information
of lieutenant Bailey.
_St. Mary’s._ No barrack built in said parish, but as the Committee
are informed his excellency intends to send some soldiers for their
protection, a barrack is necessary to be forthwith built.
_Old Harbour._ No barrack built, but the parish of St. Dorothy have
hired a house for a detachment of thirty soldiers, as informed by Mr.
Edmund Pusey.
_Spanish Town._ The barrack-house is in good order, the officers’
cook-room wants repairing, the cook-room for the private men is
entirely down, and the palisado enclosure, on the back part of the
out-houses, carried away by the late storm; said barrack contains
sixty men.
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