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This arises from my not having sufficient funds at my disposal for the service of the Financial year ended 31st March, 1849, in consequence of which I found it necessary, as I anticipated in my Despatch Nr. 108 of 16th December, 1848, to postpone many payments, (most of those in fact which appear in the Detailed Estimate), till the commencement of the present Financial year in April last, which payments ought, and were intended, to have been made during the last financial year.
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Exclusive of the two items £1,250 and £1,815, above referred to, there are still two other small claims on the Government; - one due to Mr. Campbell, Passage money the late Acting Chief Justice; and, the other to the Trustees of St. John's Cathedral, amounting conjointly to £442.10.02, £254.6.2 and £188.3.10 respectively.
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Now, therefore, Your Lordship may consider that the financial embarrassments of the Colony have ceased, and that I shall have at the close of the Financial year in March next, somewhere about £5,000 at my disposal, which devoted to the erection of a Government House, should Your Lordship's reply to my Despatch Nr. 82 of 25th August last, warrant its commencement; but I would respectfully remark that this sum should not be considered available for the expenditure of next year, and that the sum of £20,000 will still be required for the Colony, should it be determined to build a Government House.
I have the honor to be,
With the highest respect,
Your Lordships'
Most Obedient,
Humble Servant,
Malcolm