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cess under the no more than the necessities of the Public requirements. The receipts of Pers Juust Ordinance No 6 of 1866 and the Registration Ordinance No 9 of 1886 will be best understood on a reference to the Ordinances themselves.
I am submitting to Your Lordships by this despatch the schedules which I am.
On the Expenditure side of the Colonial Accounts, the tabular statement shows that the increase of the Estimates of the present year amounts to about $21,000 for the items, $23,000 for increase of Establishment in the Registrar General's and Harbor Master's Departments for the purpose of carrying out the provisions of Ordinances 6 and 7 of 1861, $9,000 for return passages to India of Police Constables whose periods of Service have expired, $26,000 for half year cost of a Colonial Geologist and $111,000 extra expenditure on Roads, Streets and Bridges, which is occasioned by the absolute necessity on sanitary grounds of paving certain streets in Taipingshan, the most densely populated portion of the Town.
The decreases amount to $28,000 on Public Works and sundry minor items, such as decrease in the estimated number of prisoners and the reduction of the Allowances to the Volunteers.
Very few of the items of increase or decrease call for special remark. The decrease at the Mint is more nominal than real, for the Estimates for the present year provide a nine months' expenditure, while for 1869 an entire year is included.