According to his own account there were
in 1867 $76,000
1868. 191,166
1869 to July 100,000
August ...September 15,000
15,000
Estimated to December 52,000.
$449,166
actually received
Son Handford
the truth being that the $317,798 at the bottom of the Account of the Special Fund, is the difference between the total receipts, and the expenditure that his inferiority could charge against those receipts up to August 1869. The $177,807, which he criticised in 2 years & a half, "which is severely in the daily press," (see 12806) is in fact the amount which he proposed to appropriate during the 2nd half of 1869, as special expenditure, in other words more than 1/3 of the total ordinary Expenditure of the Colony during that period
JRB
27/11/69.
Lee's remarks here
MR
793-12352-69 - Hong Kong 76
The oft-repeated desire to
in accordance with the Minutes (12352) to expunge from the Estimate items which he has charged upon the Special funds without special sanction (89526 March)
In Round in his minute calls attention in detail to the Excessive items, as it remains whether the proposed offer is sufficient. Further relaxation should be made.
With regard to 2.1 I think that it could not be allowed although the instructions here render the Expense of the Crews of the Vessel might very well be charged against the Fund out of which the cost of the Vessel was defrayed.
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