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to render
A
Confusing subject
more perplexing than it need absolutely have been. Indeed, I never found any unofficial Member of Council in any Colony, and seldom any official Member except the Auditor General or Colonial Secretary
who had attained a reasonable
facility in handling and referring
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to the Annual Estimates. When comparing the
expenditure of certain establishment
in one
Colony with the corresponding establishments in another I confess I have made frequent and very inconvenient mistakes, because
I perhaps had not quite exhausted all the heads under which I should have searched for certain portions of the Expenditure total given in any part of the Estimates.
nor was the rear
Perhaps in the
hope of remedying this evil I am now straining a point, and am assuming more freedom than recent modification of the Treasury Warrants allows. Yet in the
groups
any
inclosed intimates I merely seek to gather into distinct all expenditure of whatever kind belonging to each district department whether Scent - Salaries- fixed provisional-Establishment-
or