being
£38,900. But on
Public
forks, while he threw out a
remark that
probably
they
would
cost £24,000 in
order entirely to finish them, he did not furnish any
data to show that they ought
to be completed within a single year. On the contrary, some of the most urgent
com:
of them being already completed, it appeared expedient
on general grounds to spread
the remainder over a
greater period
of time, and this course
seemed the more desirable,
inasmuch as
in order that by allowing
time for the growth of the
local
1845-6 — £20,994
1846-7 — £18,145
1847-8 -- £18,732
local Revenue, there might be
a prospect that the Imperial Exchequer would be called on for a smaller proportion of
the cost than if the whole of the works were
hastened
to completion at once.
For
these reasons it was deemed
the safest and most advisable course to be guided to a
certain
degree by the Expen:
-diture of recent
the outlay
years, and
on
Public Works
having them
having
been confined to the amounts
stated in
the mar
margin
to
vote for
decline proposing
more.
a
than £20,000 on this
account for the
4 year ending
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