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it must be content to proceed
at that rate for which
provision can
can reasonably
be made out of the Revenues
of this Country.
next
8. But it
remains
to draw the attention
of
the Lords Commx of the Treasury to the circumstances of prior
unexpended duties
which will require
their Lordships consideration
and decision. In his Despatch
therewith
2017 of the 8th of May, and especially in the Report transmitted from the Treasurer,
has
the Governor furnished upon the deficiency noticed
by the
Commissrs of Audit in the
accounts
Accounts of Hong Kong, such
explanations as the local Govt
can afford. And Lord Grey
having
deemed it right to
request Sir J. Davis also to furnish any information in
his power
on this subject,
a
Copy is enclosed of his reply,
upon which Lord Grey
thinks
it only due to Sir John Davis to observe that it appears to
show that he had executed
no Public Works which had
not been regularly authorized, and that he had managed
the large accounts which passed through his hands
in a
manner
much
to give satisfaction