16
17
204
of conse
not be received in time to
be used in the Session of
1 1844, going on
existiry,
Parliament then
and the Government took
the course of submitting
Estimate on conjectural grounds
dated the 12th of June 1844,
for 230,000.
The Financial
statements which had been
demanded from the Gov?
were received in the
year
40
for
ad
following
regards
Expenditure, in his Despatch
2073 of the 13th December 1844,
but as they did not
likewise comprise the
amount of any from local sources
Receipts
the
Governor
Governor
was desired to
supply
the defect, and in the mean = while the Government appears
to have considered that there
were not sufficient measure
any o
of judging whether what, additional vote should be submitted to Parliament.
No direct answer would
seem to have been returned
by the Governor to the
information demand for more.
various
as to the earlier local Revenues; and although, Instructions were afterwards issued in order to preserve regularity in the successive Annual Estimates from the