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for the pensions to be hereafter granted to the Civil Servants in that Colony
With reference to the proposition
I have to state that the abatement received but the ... information gained from these officers in whom the Colony is to be required to find pensions should be transferred to the credit of the local revenue. I am to state that their Lordships have no power to direct the Colonial Government to expend the abatements made from the salaries while those Salaries were paid from Imperial Funds—and which are properly payable into the Exchequer - But they would observe that certain sums have been erroneously remitted from the Colony on account of abatements from the Salaries of the Civil Servants who were paid from the local revenue.
It would appear from the letter of the Commissioners of Audit dated 26th August (a copy of which is herewith enclosed) that £82198-9-1 has been so received by Her Majesty's Government for the period from 1854 when the Colony began to practice some of the Salaries to the 30 June when the abatements ceased.
This sum includes the abatements from all the Salaries, it not being possible in the Colony to distinguish the deductions received in respect of Salaries paid from Imperial Funds from the abatements received in respect of Salaries paid from local Funds.