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of March 1845, Lord Grey does not find that any recurrence was ever made to the previous period, commencing from the 1st of September 1843, to 31 March 1845.
11. The Treasurer's present Report, however, represents that the vote taken for that period having been £30,000, the local Revenue was £14,834, making a total of £40,834, whilst the Expenditure was no less than £78,928, so that it exceeded by £34,094 the amount for which regular provision was made. The excess was probably defrayed, in point of fact, as the Treasurer conjectures, from the same sources which the Colonial Cost had been previously accustomed to consider at their disposal, viz.: the Military Chest and the Chinese Ransom.
The Treasurer's Report further shows that although there may have been certain savings in the Expenditure of subsequent years compared with the amounts of the Parliamentary Grants and Local Revenues for the same period, yet if all the Expenditure of the Colony from the 1st of September 1843
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