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I feel very grateful for the consideration which has been given to my case, and for the proposed special grant of £250 which, as far as I am personally concerned, would be an arrangement highly favourable to me; but I feel at the same time that I ought not, for reasons which I shall specify, to avail myself of this assistance without further reference to your Grace.
3.
In the first place, there appears from the correspondence above referred to, to have been some misconception as to the general practice throughout the Colonies as regards the supply of furniture for government Houses. The "general rule" of the service is quoted as forbidding the furnishing of the private apartments at the public expense, and it is stated "that" general practice imposes "that charge on the Governors. Whatever may have been the intention of the Colonial Regulations, or the Regulation to which I am referred by the Lord-Commissioners of Her Majesty's Treasury, it is I believe generally understood as prescribing, not the maximum but only the