A. J. Gordon Ey
Sir.
Land Officer to
Victoria, sloughing.
December 11th 1843,
47
Sam dirooted to acknowledge receipt of your letter of the 6th Instant and No. 123 564 in which you represent, that in order to keep the Roads of the Colony in a state of perfect order - as well as to execute other trifling occasional works - it is necessary, you should keep a small gang of Coolies constantly at the - employed (decreasing or increasing the number as may be requisite) and therefore beg that the Treasurer may be authorized to make advances to you at commencement of each mouth, submitting a probable Estimate, to enable you to pay the said Coolies.
In reply I am to inform you that His Excellency the Governor cannot give any undefined authority of the sort you describe to the Treasurer, but as His Excellency sees the necessity for your being supplied with funds to meet the expenses to which you refer he is further desired to instruct you to forward an Estimate for the ensuing one only at the close of each mouth and which if approved of will be sanctioned and ordered to be paid in advance-
In case where the full amount of your Estimate may not be expended you will carry the balance to the credits of that for the succeeding month and must bear in mind the absolute necessity for confining these indispensable charges to the lowest possible sum.
I have …
(Signed) (Richard Woosnam.
No:124