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by. The thing to be guarded against is unduly and routinely revising expectation of increase of the Revenue, and anticipating that it will as lately go on rapidly. Much will depend on the Land Sales and the Roads and Streets to be made in the adjacent localities. Amongst us, Roads and Streets and Drains will, in the end, be found to have caused losses to the Revenue, to a greater and more permanent extent than the imaginary gains.
Having alluded to Gambling and Opium Licenses, I take this opportunity of bringing to the notice of His Excellency, the Governor, that I understand about 30 of them exist, and have existed for some time; and further, that the party actually collects money from them, under the plea that he holds the monopoly.
B. Expenditure.
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69. The Estimated Expenditure for 1856 is £324,306.7.0, or in excess of the actual payments made in 1854 by £9,671.6.11.
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£ s. d. Under Establishments, chiefly on account of increase for Education (compare with the same purpose under the heads of Establishments and Rent) 516 0 10 Works and Buildings - Roads, Streets, Bridges, Drainage, etc. 1410 14 2 Losses in Course of Fire, etc. 7301 14 0 Other Items (incidental) Under Pensions 11 9 2 Rents 781 13 4 Conveyance of Mails 174 8 4 Land Purchases 844 5 10,710 0 6 Police, Contingencies 69 1 11 1,138 1370. When compared with the Estimate for 1855, the Estimated Expenditure for the succeeding year is more by £13,272.11.8, of which, however, a sum of not less than