deferred that I shall
I supposed
intentions
best meet
Court
treating them.
30 making
I trust that
The anticipations which grew
of the probable If the Revenue
Increase of the
Hong Kong
are
1
justified by
The prospects of the Colony -
If so, there can be no
better mode of expending
any
surplus
on Public Works of a
than
permanently useful character.
But I must caution
You
as to the rapidity which exists for adhering to the
rule laid down in The
Colonial Regulations, Ch: ×
against proposing to the Legislative Council the
expenditure on
Public Works
of importance without first submitting plans and estimates
to the Secretary of State, and
asking for his sanction
to the outlay. To a Colony
which the British Revenue
has only just ceased to contribute, the duty of Hongkong