due to the general Revenue
From
the Special Fund on the
under
31 December 1869 recording to my instructions with that
expended to be due according to your proposed appropriation of the License - Fees, and in reply to your suggestion that the Colony should not be Called upon to repay the
difference of $129,701.35
I have to inform you
that I
Cannot sanction any further departure from the instructions already communicated to you beyond the increase from $30,000 to $50,000 of the contribution towards the Police Expenditure of the Colony for
1869, which was made in my
despatch No. 4 of the 7 January
Though some of the sums
567
charged against the Fund in
second account appear
to your
to be open to question, I am
prepared to accept them,
so that the balance to the
Credit of the special Fund at the end of 1869 will be $277,334.65.
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