58
less
bring £312.10.12 half year's P.W.D. for. the Government House, love the increase of £251 made to the Salary of the Lieutenant Governor, and £35 for increased wages to Porter, Messengers and others £62.10.0. On the Judicial Department, that
is, under Administration of Justice, for compensation to witnesses-
£70,
detained to give evidence. £7.10 less
an increase of wages of Messengers £5.0.0. For Hospitals, viz for Rent £76, £75,
less 5 for
And
an increase of £25 on the Pay of the Dispenser, and £5 Contingent Expenditure, and further £174.8.14 Allowance to the Hongkong Canton Steam Navigation Company, under the head of Conveyance of Mails. The Company having sold their
Steamers in December last, and discontinued their operations
22. Anticipating that the Revenue of the Colony will be as per Estimate £832,000, the ordinary expenditure will be about the same amount.
100. About £15,000 for Public Works must therefore be defrayed out of the £8,756 surplus existing on the 1st April last, and the Surplus arising out of the current year's Income!
101. Here I would, however, remark, how desirable it would be that all the works which have been for some time either contemplated or borne on the previous Estimates should be finished, if possible before the end of the current year, and, in justice to the purchasers land, the Streets in the new localities be speedily formed, as the erection of...