is still more required for the expenditure of a yet larger sum supplementing an item for Works and building, never previously sanctioned by the Council, and which, though covered by the Vote for Works and building, had never been even mentioned to the Council, and were therefore essentially different objects from those referred to in the detailed Estimates given to the Council as a guide.
8. The feeling of the Council lately expressed was in favor of the Estimates which were passed without the alteration of a cent, or any difference worth noting to the policy of the expenditure.
Estimates Page 17. 297 proposed to be defrayed from the Votes. Though one Member protested against the Military Contribution, that question of course is not a matter of option with this Government. My attention, however, was particularly called to the principle involved in dealing with Sums voted under a general heading in a different manner from that originally proposed in the detailed Estimates, which the Government gives Official explanation of the proposed mode of dealing with the money voted, and as the Scheme by which it professes to bind itself.
9. On that subject I am free to the Council as the