that Her Majesty's Government may grant a sum at least equal to the donation of Mr. Harjeethey Rustamjee, and also a sum to increase the monthly allowance of Two Hundred Dollars to keep up the requisite establishments, as well as to provide medicines, hospital furniture, &c.
When the whole of the monthly allowance is expended, I would propose that the balance should be carried to the credit of the Hospital Fund; that the expenditure should be audited once a quarter by a Committee (of which the Colonial Surgeon and one or two other Officers of Government should be ex-officio Members) and submitted to the Governor in Council for final sanction;
and that defined rules as to the admission of patients, the stoppages (where they are in the pay of Government) to be made from patients, and other requisite details, should be framed and promulgated under the same authority and sanction.
Should it be thought advisable hereafter to meet the expenses of both the Seamen's and General Hospitals by appropriating to that object the rents accruing from marine lots situated in the immediate neighbourhood of the Hospitals - a plan which is alluded to in some of the letters already quoted - there is no doubt but this might be done. I come, however, disposed to...
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