of much a calculation and a calculation if made in
reference to any principle de
The result would not be
intelligible. Any principle might produce
a debatable worry unacceptable to this
Government of Hongkong.
As therefore
any
settlement must
be more or less arbitrary, I am ready to acquiesce in one based
on
the instructions contained in
the despatch of Buckingham's
No. 176 of 23 October 1868, which
in any apportionment of Police
expenses between the
Special Revenue
and the General Revenue cannot
be considered otherwise than
liberal as regards the latter.
In those instructions I observe
that the sum of $29,000 per annum, as suggested by yourself, was
sanctioned as a contribution towards the Police Expenditures from the Receipts of the License-Issue for two specific purposes, but as there is no
reason for such special appropria-
tion,
I will sanction for the
same.
Sie 10791 by their mail
Sin Mopr
£6250 per annum
is about for the whole cost.
This is still
waiting for
Your sanction.
(at the end of draft)
See addition
below
Exclusive of Expense which will be incurred in lengthening the Victoria, if you should decide on doing
the reception of
323
will present a charge of 30,000 dollars
a year on the Special Fund towards the expense of the Colonial
Police, which I consider moderate but arbitrary
a
fair arbitrary contribution.
You have also my
authority
for
Expenses incurred in the
purchase of the two steam launches and the schooner Victoria against the Harbour fund; and I have
also sanctioned the application of $13,000 odd from the same
to the Sea-View Hospital.
Certain
I consider all the charges
for Roads, Stations, Works, &c.
inadmissible; and must be expunged from the account
which will then stand as in the inclosing schedule, shewing a balance
of $265,248.66 at the end of June 1869, and there will further be chargeable
against the Fund
a sum of $38,400.
for expenses incurred during the second half of the year.
X
While I fully acknowledge