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for that purpose, and which injunctions My Lords trust will ensure the Governor's Requisitions for Advances from the Commissariat - being carefully restricted to the Amount of those Votes, after due Allowance for any disbursement by the Colonial Agent in this Country to be defrayed from them, By Lords do not deem it
sorry that
further Communication should be made to the Governor subject of the Excess of Expenditure which had been incurred after the first formation of the Colony, of any further Adjustment between the Colonial Expenditure and the Means which the Parliamentary Votes and Colonial Resources may have furnished for defraying it prior to the 31st of March 1848.
Referring to the concluding suggestions in your Letter, I am to request that you will further state to Lord Grey that My Lords will have under consideration the steps it may be necessary to take for the further Adjustment of past Issues from the Funds of this Country for the Service of the Government of Hong Kong; and that in the mean time, as the present Governor has been already apprised by Lord Grey's Despatch of the 21st September that the unexpended Balance which it had been proposed to appropriate to the Service of the Year 1848-
would not be applicable, and that he must strictly limit the Expenditure of his Government from the commencement of that Year within the Means afforded by