me;
and
they
am
effectually or nearly
been embodied in a
be carried out,
so
as
if they had
fresh appropriation
Ordinance. At the same time, if your
Space prefers the latter plan I have with
saving trouble prepared revised
a view to saving Estimates
omitting
all Revenue from gambling
Licenses and cutting down the proposed expenditure of the Surveyor General's
department from $205,900
to $107,000, not
however without great detriment to the
Public interests. The two
obviously incompatible.
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12.
Things being
I will now pass to another view
as it
of the question, extremely important, is clear from Your Grace's despatch that Her Majesty's Government considers the
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ordinary Colonial Revenue has been steadily increasing so as to justify increased burdens. One great burden besides the Military Contribution has been already put on it,
viz.
the building, establishment, and maintenance
of its Machinery and
Staff; and
I observe that Your Grace admits the latter has entailed a heavy charge on
the Assets of the Treasury;
it's annual Revenue.
13.
and also
only fair
Unquestionably it is make due allowance, as Your Grace
does,
on
on
to
for a burden so heavy as to have used up $350,000 of the Assets of the Treasury, and involved this Government in an annual expenditure of
more
than $62,000.