Court House,
and that the Government House is not yet begun, I think
we
ought not to restrict the expenditure
under this head - for the year ending
31 March 1849 to
150
I say the business - it is not
the whole, for
a sufficient
sum must be added to it, to
220
that actually laid out
in
1847; and
I would allow £20,000 for the purpose.
This, there is a
reason to believe from
the returns of former years,
much
as
can be expended in
one
year,
under
no alteration here £20,000, is the sum
assumed in
my Original Estimate of this Item
the supervision of the present Establishment-
We have the
expenditure of
total £
Instead of
38,910
£58,900 (1,000,000) to provide £59,910 (20,000
38,900
58,900
for, while the Colonial ways and means meet it, to the extent of £44,228
The difference,
the basis
of
or
2257
58,910
of Expenditure
set against £44,228 of Colonial
ways and means,
£14,675 having to be my original Estimate
the Parliamentary Vote.
to
make
a
safe and
standing
balance;
What the amount
of
this
balance should be is
a
question for the Departments
of War and of Foreign Affairs,
and that of Colonies. The balance sheet at present before indicates an actual Treasury
balance, varying during
the
years
from about £8010 to £3000, fortified,
however, by
a
credit on the Commissariat
Chest to the amount
of
£30,000 notes