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And claims, sails of American drift, and, instead of sheathing metal, wing thin plates for covering the bottom. Many a number of most objectionable vessels are permitted to exist, to the great injury of the really good and efficient.
The most objectionable Lorchaos are
Loreline reported to be moved chiefly by dwindling Home Keepers, who easily man them with any sort of people who may come to their houses; it might be well therefore if all Europeans employed on them were shipped and discharged before the Harbour Master under a heavy penalty, and for Logs to be kept on board these craft.
The total increase under "Reimbursements, Miscellaneous and Special Receipts" is £785.13.3¼, from various causes,
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296 the principal being the recovery of £46. 13.4 for breach of Contract, being part of the Securities of the Contractor who built the Government House.
The only decrease under any general head of Revenue has been under Sale of Government property, viz., £111.0.10, which is not of any consequence.
Expenditure.
The Expenditure of the colony during 1855 took £44,815.11.2, being £7,159.19.1¼ less than the Income.
As compared with the foregoing year, the increase is £6,178.11.1. This large amount is chiefly accounted for under three general heads of Expenditure, viz.: 1. Under Police and Gaols £1,724. 13.8¼ being additions made to the pay of the force, to Clerks and other.
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