20
up to the 31st of March 1848
be compared with all the
appropriations regularly
made to its service, there
will be a
deficiency of
£21,640, which making allowance for the later date of the accounts does not materially differ from the deficiency of about £23,000
computed by
the Auditors
to have existed up to the
31st of March 1847.
13. Such
being
the
principal facts which are
brought under notice by
the present communications,
they
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they suggest various questions which Lord Grey
can
only
leave for the judgment of
the Lords Comm's of the
Treasury,
such for instance
whether
any
drafts
made by the Governor upon
the Military Chest or China Ransom, in the interval
between the 1st of Sept 1843
and the 31st of March 1845
can be viewed otherwise than in the light of Advances
which will have to be
settled in a subsequent adjustment of Accounts, and also whether the Savings,