Sargeaunt to Rogers (Permanent Under-Secretary)

Referring to your letter of the 3rd ultimo, and in compliance
with the request contained in its P.S., I return herewith the
drawings and specifications supplied by the War Office to enable
the Volunteers of Vancouver's Island to obtain the Targets they
require from the Trade.

The Birmingham Agents, to whom I referred these drawings and
specifications for the purpose of ascertaining the price, state
that the Iron Targets could be supplied at £4 each and Mantlets
at £26 each: but that they cannot report favorably of the
Targets, the impact of the bullet in a very short time so bends
and buckles the plates as to render them useless.

They recommend the Cast Hematite Targets as being cheaper (£3
each), stronger, and never bending.