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They say that the Church having cost £8736, the Government is bound to contribute two-thirds, or £5824 and the Community the difference, or £2912. The Government however, having only paid £4,600, they say £1224 is still expected. Now this claim is, I think, fairly met by a claim arising from the fact, for the first time disclosed in these Papers, that the sittings required in the Church for the Government Servants, the Military & the Public, amount to 718, or 78 more than the whole Church can hold.
If any Subscriptions received subsequently to the passing of that law could not bind the Government to any payment beyond what was therein promised, the Governor observes that the Church, and corroborate it in his answer to the Trustees who have probably been the Chief Contributors, and who pay for their sittings, and which perhaps Lord Grey may think entitle them to some consideration towards the erection of the Church. They have in fact given more than they promised to do, seem entitled to some relief which may perhaps be best given by sanctioning the Ordinance the Governor proposes to sue for the payment of a debt of £416 due.