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the Colourf

As soon as the Salaries become chargeable from the local revenue- the abatements ought to have been retained in the Colony and placed to the credit of the Colonial Revenue

Under these circumstances "their Lordships will be prepared to repay to the Colonial Treasury such proportion of the sum of £22,198-9-1 as may be ascertained from the accounts in the Colony to have been deducted from such of the Salaries as were paid from the local revenue

what has been an bring furnished with a statement showing, the amount may be - They will give directions to the officer in charge of the Treasury to pay the sums into the Colonial Treasury

I see no reason for departing, from their previous decision that the Pensions hereafter to be granted should be defrayed from the local Revenue as part of the arrangement under which the whole expense of the Colony is for the future to be defrayed from that source

four Clerks Sewants

Les Allemands

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