M 140 of 1884
Melosure N. 1 in Despatch
Resolution by the majority
of the Legislative Council
13th September 1864.
231
Extract
of
I note from Mr Ball, Acting
Chief Justice, to Sir Hercules Robinson, dated 19th September 1864.
"I felt it to be
my duty to vote
against the pension, and
for this reason
'I folli
against
that a pension is an allowance
in consideration of past services, that the Salary of the Bishop whilst in office not having been
derived out of Colonial Revenues, and
his duties being over
a vast expanse of territory other than what is included within
the limits of the Colony, he is not a servant
of the Colony, and, as a consequence,
the funds of the Colony can with no greater propriety be rendered chargeable with a
pension..."
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