But the greatest part of the expenditure is under the headings Works & Building, + Roads Streets & Bridges: taking these 2 together, the original Estimates when charged with an expenditure of $150,000, the total actual Expenditure was $201,472; the new votes in the estimates amount to $71,492; $20,000 was apparently about $20,070 saved in some of the subvotes: of the $71,492 which now remain in connection (1) $12,589 was spent on a new roof to ... (2) $7,769 on Police Station at Connaught Bay (3) $3,712 Rebuilding a portion of Central Market- (4) $7,200 Sea wall, Bonham Strand (5) $1,749 office for Crown Solicitor (6) $5,381 - Repairs to Supreme Court Office - in addition to a vote in the original Estimates for $10,000 - (7) $1,019 Repair to a gaol for Small Pox hospital, (8) $14,462 Typhoon Repairs (under both heads) (9) $9,755 - Repairs to Praya, additional to a vote of $5,000 on original Estimates, (10) $11,453 - Repairs to Roads out of Victoria (11) $2,619 additional to original vote of $6,000 - Drain in Victoria - additional to original vote of $...
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Of the whole of this expenditure we have not heard a word before, excepting in a despatch from you Whitfield which reported the Typhoon roughly estimated the damage at $100,000. Votes appear to have been taken in the Council for all these items at the time, but none of those votes was reported for the Secretary of State. It appears to have occurred to nobody how they were to be provided for. Now with the exception of the Typhoon Repairs, & the expense caused by the Small Pox Hospital, there do not appear among the items any others which were of that urgent necessity that the Secretary of State's sanction could not be waited for, yet we know nothing of the expenditure till a year afterwards. Nos (6) (9) (10) (11) in the above list appear to be mere cases of ordinary repairs, in which the original estimate was much exceeded; considering the notorious state of the Surveyor...