Cemetery and the Auditor.
Penal.
officers
I agree with the that it is impossible to adapt the expenditure to the Estimates with any approximation to exactitude, and I think the point put forward by the Auditor is worthy of notice, viz: that while in the four Colonies, with which the Despatch under reply is concerned, the excess of actual over estimated expenditure was but £15,242, the excess of actual over estimated Revenue was £24,005.
On the subject of appropriations in aid of the salary of Principal Storekeeper, I have no doubt that Sir John Bowring will address you.
I trust the explanation regarding Mr. W. St. Mitchell's allowances will be satisfactory.
The Surveyor General shall be instructed to make his requisitions in future through the Colonial Secretary's Office, and these shall be transmitted, as I presume is intended, through the Secretary of State to the Agent General for Crown Colonies.
As concerns the remission of Mr. Duddell's Market Rent, it