Lord John Russel
but this sum was never drawn from the Imperial Exchequer, and consequently the whole of the contributions for this year must have been made No 105 of 9 July 1855.
Lient: Governor 2000
1954/5 from Salaries paid out of Colonial revenue. Parliamentary ultimate mouse - In 1854/55 £4,400 was voted for four Salaries, and the abatements on these salaries amounted to £220, which being deducted from £2,198.9.2. leaves £1,978.9.2. to be repaid to the Colony on account of abatements received by Her Majesty's Government subsequent to 1 April 1854.
5 With reference to the abatements from Salaries
Colonial Secretary 700 Treasurer 900 Colonial Surgeon 800 Total voted £4,400 2,198.9.2. 220.0.0. 1,978.9.2. Total Contributions35 But I think there must be some misapprehension upon this point - The whole of the Salaries were on no doubt borne by the Estimates laid before Parliament for every year previous to 1854, but so were every other item of Colonial Expenditure. From the total Expenditure of £5,308.5.3. Since 1854, £2,198.9.2 was for Salaries previous to 14 April 1854 collected, amounting to £3,104.16.1. their Lordships appear to propose to retain the entire amount on the assumption that all Salaries before paid from Imperial funds that date were deducted, and a vote taken, in aid of the Civil Government, only for the probable deficiency.
But the sum voted was never (as in 1854/55 and 1856/56) appropriated for any particular purpose, and I can find nothing in the Parliamentary Estimates, or in the Instructions from Your Grace's Department, or in the course actually adopted here, to connect the annual votes for the years before 1854 with the payment of salaries any more than with...