Excerpt from Report on the Military Expenditure of the Honorable East India Company: Addressed to Major-General the Honourable Sir John Malcolm, G. C. B. K. L. S., Governor
In Bengal and Madras, the Commissariat was more confined to military purposes, making but few supplies out of its own line, until those for the hospitals were thrown into it. The equipments, however, for the Governor-general and civil officers of Government travelling on duty in Bengal, are made by it.
Hardly any of the materials required in the manufactories of gunpowder and gun carriages, and for the erection of buildings in the military line, for the engineers, are furnished by the Bengal Commissariat, though at Madras this rule does not obtain; and those for the engineers, as stated, are mostly by contract through the Commissariat.
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