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,

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