those ways & means, he turns out to have had no real existence, then being in fact a large deficit, and secondly because the Colonial Revenue, though it actually amounted in the Calendar Year 1847 to
In
turn adopted in the Parliamentary Estimate, cannot now, for fear of the showing off to put despatches, be afforded expected to be
more than
In consideration of the
errors
Colonial
the Estimate of Ways & means set off in the financial statement laid before Earl Grey against the Colonial Expenditure, Earl Grey would suggest to the Lords Commissioners that Mr. Hawes be
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empowered to draw from the Consolidated Chest, as large a sum in excess of the Parliamentary Vote, as the Colonial
Ways Revenue for the year
may fall short of the Estimate of Colonial Ways & means.
In conclusion Earl Grey would recommend to the
favourable consideration of the Lords Commissioners, the
suggestions
contained in
this correspondence, that the accounts of the Colonial Office should be adjusted to the 31 March 1848 - &
the
surplus
arrear cancelled, in order that for the future any unexpended sum of the Parliamentary Vote