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My Lords
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Victoria, Hongkong,
6th May, 1847
Despatch N 69 of February
10th from Your Lordship states that the whole of the Expenditure for Public Wirks is to be provided for from the Colonial Revenue; but I have the satisfaction to
observe that a
previous Despatch, J.
26 of September 28+, convoys the approval. of Her Majesty's Government to the
unappropriated surplus of previous votes of Parliament being considered as a part of the ways and means of Government for meeting the Expenditure for Works already
in
progress or contemplated.
During the current your
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