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years one with another that this shifting of nomen-clature should be the accounts should be the Parliamentary Vote on behalf of the Fried Establishment ».
I think Sir John Davis in 810. H.K: the Report on the Blue Book would hardly congratulate us as he does upon the growth of the Revenue, - if at every change it was for the above purpose, and not for the pur-pose of enforcing the Rule of the Treasuryp, before described, that Mer Bonham was instructed, seeing that the rule itself has no meaning.
Now that the Colonial Revenue, considerably exceeds the sum required for Public Works, and for Contingencies in the largest acceptation of the latter term that this is applicable to the reduction of the bona fide one, and there is no very palpable objection to such an assumption.
But close inspection of the table of Expenditure joined to the absence of any such marked congratulations in the case of the Revenue, makes me think that Table entirely fails as a guide to the real state of facts. It is pretty clear that a large number of Officers had not drawn their last Quarter's salary when
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