Expenditure on the proposed Road between Aberdeen and Stanley is estimated to amount to £2,705. instead of £4,706. 14. 3, the sum at first contemplated.
Lord Grey directs me to request that you will lay these papers before the Lord's Commissioners of the Treasury, and state it as my recommendation to give their Lordships' sanction to the change proposed to be made on account of the Guest Horse, and double the saving which is anticipated in the Construction of the road between Aberdeen and Stanley counterbalancing, as their Lordships will perceive, the expenditure which is now proposed for the Guest ... Horse.
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