and
which as it appears
from the Treasury letter to this Department, dated 26th March 1845, when its total inadequacy had become manifest,
was clearly intended to be supplied by a special application to Parliament; has in fact up to the present moment never been so met; and still constitutes a charge against the Colony, with the Indemnity from the Military Chest or other Departments, from which the deficient funds have been drawn; and yet the accounts would seem to have acquired the requisite confidence for raising the Supplementary question, at the close of 1845, or very early in 1846.
This vote, whatever its cause, not having been taken on the question of whether the subsequently accruing surplus, already foreseen, would make good the prior deficiency, or whether it could be available for current expenses,