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Exclusive of Establishment or otherwise, whilst in all cases a separate column, side by side with the items to be voted, gives "pari passu" the several items provided for in the Civil List.
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Hence, the total Expenditure in any department whether defrayed by Civil List or provided to be voted - as well as its proportion to the whole income of the Colony is never out of sight, and in fact is prominently and clearly put forward that the real total required for every department, and even for each branch of every Department may be said to be forced on the attention of the most casual reader of the Estimates, instead of eluding and baffling the inquiry of even a diligent searcher as formerly.
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I think it probable, however, that simple and natural as such an arrangement may be it is perhaps somewhat less in accordance with even existing Treasury instructions than I had supposed when directing the Estimates of 1870 to be framed. Nevertheless, if there be no paramount reason which entirely escapes me, and which renders the simplicity of the ...