should observe, that most of the former having been incurred on account of the Military occupation of this Island during the War, they have been, under Lord Aberdeen's instructions, as well as transferred to the debit of the Military Chest.
With respect to such as have not been transferred, and to temporary buildings for the Civil Authorities in the Island, as well as those that are now in progress for the accommodation of Clerks, &c., it is obvious that a portion of the whole should appertain to the Department of Her Majesty's Superintendent of Trade, and it is therefore necessary that it should be decided by competent authority to what head in the public Accounts they should be eventually placed.
The whole of the buildings at present included under the name of the Government House may be strictly considered to belong to the Superintendent's Department, since one part of them was built as an office when he was absent to the Northward and the more recent portion was expressly erected to receive the Imperial Commissioner and other High Chinese Officers in their coming to this place on duty.
I will at the earliest possible period submit the best explanations I can of these complicated charges, and in the meantime, I would respectfully suggest that a grant on account of this Colony should be applied for from Parliament, and placed at the disposal of the Colonial Government to carry on immediate and unavoidable Expenses, also that instructions should be sent out as early as convenient, with regard to what Functionaries are to be provided with residences.
In concluding this despatch, I beg to forward a statement, showing the result