Panduer, Si P. Barrow and other gentlemenced
Carversant with the praction of
Colonies and they all
lepar
the
subject
арсе
on the point.
"I would particularly recommend to your Attention the very good and enfferent rules
et contained at pages 97 Preg. Colonial Regulations, where this well. ofitee know prinsiple is distinvetly laid downs. All men in the Colonies Sir I. Bowring is the very last who, by his Inacagement of the finances, ought to be exempt from this well
· established rule of Colonial Povernment.
of
For these reasons I would strongly recommend that di d. Bavring be dislivetty
wishusted that his Annual Estimates
hot on
on lay
to be laid on this table of the
are
Legislative Council, hit are to be submitted to Their vote, and are in all respects to be de alt with in exact conformity with the rules laid down in the book of Colonial
W Blackword
of Colonial Regulations, 2.7 28 facty
Can you find anything home former conest. to confirm, or dispion, Fir)B's statement, but the rclimatio had rear her submitted 2te (mail in tr.K. before his time?
1m Jan 29
595 Hong Kong
758.
Sir J. Boaning
39
is correct in stating that the (lovine
Estimates were never submitted to the dye Cousin ? in me occasion, as after specified.
es
except bug Sir G. Bonham
undil his epumption of thee & whe
of Sir John Bourings
added that this practice is a
Λ
q
vely
" recent one-
since the reconstruction of the L. C. ance the introduction unto that torby Body,
The more,
cement - a quater number of unoff is
I certainly have alwa... entertained
"
the persuasion that the rules laid down at Bay of the Colonial Regulations in Estimates were
were deserved at Honey
gaiss. to Colonial
and I
tugais. at Honey Hong do not know how the Govermens obscreation in his despatch of the 26 Manel /56 (Pas copy Annexed I 6) that the Feasurer only prepared.
notice. Popilly The Estimates excaped my
because
the general subject of theat death (the recasting of the L. (.)
was not handled bey
re
Tought
Runtheless to have called attention to his statement
But why on that point.
should not Sir!
Bouring obey the Book of Colonical Rexelations in this respect as well as his Predixfer? on. the 20 June (46 Si G. Bonham mute as