Generally, that at present allowed to him in the North-East angle of the Supreme Court building being quite insufficient for his department's wants.
In my reasons for sanctioning these, accompanying I have informed M. Cleverly that it must be substituted for some work for which provision has been made in the Estimates for 1864, as I consider it necessary that the amount set apart for public works in the Estimates for this year, viz: $210,090, shall not be exceeded, except in the case of the Mint.
This can easily be done, as the slight rearrangement of expenditure proposed at pages 26 and 27 of the annual Estimates can be made without inconvenience. $35,000 is voted for service at Kowloon while the Revenue from land sales is estimated at only $20,000. I think the expenditure upon Kowloon should not exceed the receipts from that District. Again, the item at page 27 of $7,500 for a new Carriage from Government Offices to the road...