be called upon to defray the amount paid by the Colony, for protesting Naval Stores, which expenditure necessarily belongs to that
to that Department.-
Pending this reference to Your Lordship, I have assented to Rear Admiral Austen's request, continue the Police Force
to
at West Point, and I feel
assured that
An
Your Lordship to the Lords
intimation from
of
the Admiralty will secure the refund detailed
in the
margin
(and reported to
the Colonial Office
in Despatch 103 #61 of 24th August,
1848, and 56 is
20th June last),
The Colony has already
paid in 1848 for
Police to guard the
Naval Stores
£63,911, and up to
the end of November
the year,
this
payments under the
same head are
£85,11.9½, the
monthly allowance sanctioned being £19,154.
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which might be reimbursed by the Naval Storekeeper to the Treasurer; and I would further respectfully suggest the desirability of instructions being given to the Naval Storekeeper to disburse for similar Services all sums expended by the Colony,
recitations
occur, as
which
may
on
hereafter
the Expenditure would
thus be confined to its legitimate Department, that of the Navy..
I have the honor to be, With the highest respect,
Your Lordship's,
Most obedient. Humble Servant,
Stam