Journal
the limits of the actual plans at our disposal by Parliament
Giving accurate accounts
into which it is necessary
for
me to enter the
Colonial Treasurer's Means
are without detail, considerably
over-stated in
the Estimate laid before
in
Parliament, and
advisory tunes it could
have become a question
whether authority should
not have been obtained
for you
excess
to draw on
the Excess Vote to the
amount
but I regret that on the receipt of the information
which has now been
furnished
led to the detection of the error have
& which has
The amount of the overstate-
ment But in the
present situation.
the
Emergency Measures,
as it stands
must be held to be
sufficiently
forcibly likely. Contribution to the Revenue
code I could not feel
justified in
submitting to Expenditure " any deviation from
the excess
however slight
The alternative must
therefore be exerted to,
reducing expenditure
at whatever inconvenience.
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