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and too well paid to be under any great temptation to corruption.
It is also an admission that the Fund arising from the measures taken for the gradual control of the Gambling Houses by the Licensing system might properly be applied to the organization and payment of that Force.
I always considered that language so comprehensive as to cover all not otherwise limited or prohibited.
The appropriation for the improvement and extension of the Police was regarded by me as coming under one or two wide enclosure clauses.
Subsequent correspondence and special and unusual suggestions raised by myself did not, in my opinion, abrogate the larger general power which lay all the time behind in reserve under the comprehensive language of that despatch.
18. I have, however, not the least wish or intention to argue that I was justified in holding that opinion. I merely say, as a matter of fact, that I had doubts on the subject, nor the least desire to do otherwise than carry out what I supposed to be the wish of H.M.'s Government.
Hence, in the Financial Statement of 1868, I published His Grace's despatch as the leading authority on the point, and till the receipt of Your Lordship's recent instructions, that despatch has always been so accepted in the colony.
14. If, therefore, during 1868 and 1869, there has been a larger expenditure for Police purposes and for suppression of...