due for works in
· progress under contract.
These Contracts have nearly been completed. £1105 and must be paid for They aggregate
£. 4,003 . 9. 4, and here again . - obligations incurred.
are due
1,445.4.0 2205.15-4
237-4.4-
the amounts £4003.9.
4
by my
Predecessor, with the exception of £237, 4.7
I have directed that all
Public Works that
of credit, be
can
stopped..
be with any degree
I have also caused-
some reductions to be immediately
in
the
made
minor part of the Establishments,
to take effect from the 1st proxime; and
for the present it is
my
intention to
refrain from drawing my own salary,
which measures will, I trust, enable-
to get through the
year
year .
me
without stopping
the salaries due to the different functionaries, which cannot be done without subjecting many of them to great
inconvenience).
I am aware,
this measure, is
My Lord, that
only a temporary expedient,
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and that the surplus expenditure of this
of £. 25,000 must.
year beyond the sum be paid during the ensuing
one;
but
Your Lordship's orders are distinct, and
positive, and leave-
me no discretion; and
the mode of procedure therefore appears to
be the only one left whereby the business
of the Colony
can.
be carried on without
direct disobedience to instructions.
9.
1
my
The reductions of the Colonial_
- Establishments to a permanent footing
consistent with the absolute requirements
attentive-
of the Colony, will have my consideration - I propose making it the matter of a Separate Despatch which shall be transmitted. to Your Lordship by the Mail which conveys this one.
10.
think it proper to remark,
that in explaining.
explaining to Your Lordship
that most of the Expenses
an accoun
accou
were- incurred
of Public Works were
by
the
必