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entitled to credit both
for the disposition he has
shown to practise very
reasonable economy,
and
also for "the clearness of
the information which he
has supplied upon Financial demands of the
Colony, and his lordship feels every desire to
relieve him from any
embarrassment occasioned
by the
Estimate which
was made of the local
Resources of his Government
for the
year
1848.
I am at the
same time to observe
that
the Lords Com-
missioners of
the Treasury
are aware
from my
letter
of 6th December
last, until Sir Bonham's
Reports arrived, the accounts
from the Colony
were
rather
imperfect and perplexing.
Under these circumstances
the estimated Local Revenue
of £31,075,
the Return
was taken from
the actual
Revenue for
the Calendar
year 1847, and the small addition of £2822 was
made in consideration
of
the existence of
a
surplus which was repeatedly
alluded to