by your Government, together
with the usual financial
returns accompanying such Appropriation Ordinances.
My despatch no 155
of 8 October will have informed you
that I am
"unable to sanction the principle of charging against the Special
Fund all Extra expenditure
incurred by the Colony.
on Police Education in excess
of a fixed normal standard;
and also that all expenditure
on Roads, Stations, Works, and
Telegraphs must be supplied from the account of that Fund.
As I had informed you in my despatch no 4 of
the 26th of March that the
objects to which these funds were to be appropriated had been clearly defined by
my predecessor, and that His Grace's instructions were not to be exceeded without further and special sanction"
and had further stated in despatch no 41/2 of the 1st of May that I should not express
any opinion on the subject of the gaming houses until I had received your reply to my despatch no 48, your assumption that I should sanction the principle which you had suggested with regard to the expenditure of that Fund
was unwarranted; and as