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-ordinary expenses of Government.
46.
The stoppage of useful Public Works such as supplying the town with water, drainage-making of roads and supplying adequate Hospital accommodation, aided by fortunate Land sale, have put the Government in a position to meet the most urgent demands, but the arrears of the Military Contribution since the 12th of last September remain unpaid. More recently, the destruction caused by Typhoons of the great Public work of the Sea Wall, which protects the Praya, the main thoroughfare along the harbor, and on which depends the security of the fine range of buildings extending miles along the Praya, has completely disabled the Colony, if held liable for its restoration, from meeting the liabilities imposed by Her Majesty's Government - it is disabled from meeting them if it attempts to discharge the ordinary duties of a Community.
47.
In my despatch No. 361 of the 14th ultimo, I had the honor to furnish Your Grace with convincing proofs that the permanent ordinary revenue of the Colony has certainly not increased for ... years, and that although it had apparently risen from $1,200,000 in 1863 to £160,000 in 1866, the increase so...