§ MR. C. P. BERKELEYsaid, he would beg to ask the Secretary of State for the Colonies, If any account can be given of the sum of £4,000, which has been annually voted for fifty years for the repairs and maintenance of Forts and Establishments on the Gold Coast, which Ports are now reported by Commodore Wilmot to be in a "dilapidated condition, and to require great repairs," very little attention 1710 seeming to have been paid to them for years past?
§ MR. CARDWELLreplied, that the £4,000, which had long been contributed for the purpose stated, had been carried to the receipt side of the financial accounts of the Gold Coast, and formed part of the general revenue of the settlement.