Your Lordship in Diepatch A 116 of 10th November 1847, be Sir John Davis._
your
In referring this claim to Corochips, I beg to remark that no allowance for this contingency has been made in the Colonial Estimates for the bresent year, and that therefore the Revenue of the Colony will not, without special provision, be able to meet an Expenditure which hasnot been anticipatedh
&
may
be expected that Ishould make some observations on the items of Expenditure incurred, and I _ would therefore submit that under the head of presents in the 5th and 64 items, the amount of which is Rufees 451.9.54. this Government mever having been consulted as to the propriety of otherwise of such offerings being made, it
may
not
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be considered reasonable to charge the Lame to this Colony. It also appears to
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me that the 18th item embracing the
Sum of Ruhees 701. 9.3 for the Hotel Bill of the jury on the tial of the before named Pirates, is an unusually Carge expenditure-
-
If the Convicts had been originally sentenced to transportation from hence to Bombay, the last sum of Rupees 2,300 for conveying them from Singapore to Bombay, might have been considered a legitimate charge against this Government, but the fact is, that they sentenced by the Supreme Court of this Colony to transportation, and the Governor (Sir John Davis) by virtue of an Act passed by the Government of India, 7th August 1847, and reported to your Lordship in
were
a man malam.