in the vein taken by the Commissioners of Audit that the Ordinance to provide for the supplementary Expenditure should not be passed till the statement of the Agents General's expenditure in this country for the complete year shall have been received.
I am to add that the Report of the Commissioners of Audit No 157 of 25th April last, referred to in the present Report, relates to a similar question in Ceylon, and was communicated by the letter of this Board of the instant. Jam, last.
Mr. Strachey ... these ... the ... is by ...
Your obedient Servant. Jam. last.
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Submission being deferred till the Amounts of the last part are received from the Agents General.
I think it desirable to instruct the Agent to complete this account with his next return as far as practicable.
J. Elliot.
24th Jan' as feasible.
This proposal converts the Supplementary Estimate into an account to be presented, a questionable procedure to sanction Expenditure where the local Legislature is relied on for checking Expenditure. But as Hong Kong is practically governed by despatches from home, I believe, has assumed a retention as yet to a constitutional...