$50.
000 Funds the cost
of the New Civil Hospital.
I and prepared on your
recommendation & sanction
that expenditure
as
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may be originally absolutely
necessary for this purpose.
4. I have carefully
considered the Supplementary
statement for 1872, now sent to you.
It again includes considerable
charges for Police Stores,
and for the Public Gardens.
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But I have been unwilling to advise the Crown to
disallow this ordinance,
and I have accordingly
conveyed
to
You
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You are aware of the
gracious confirmation and allowance of the
drafting
ordinance 2:4 of 1873 which "Authorizes the appropriation
"of a Supplementary sum "not exceeding $81,000
"to defray the charges of the year "1872.
In your despatch 28102
there is rather
obscure
reference
To these charges I had taken exception
in my despatch of
the 7th of March.
C
I must
again
draw
Your
attention to the
excess,
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of the 30th April, forwarding these Supplementary Estimates, you observe that the actual expenditure for the
Year 1872 was less than that
estimated by $45,743. But on reference to the 13th page of these Estimates I remark that the net decrease amounts only to $5,703⁄4 11- 6.
I have recently, or
more than once,
brought to
your
notice the
necessity for strict economy
in the administration of the finances of Hongkong, and, I do not think it necessary to say
more than that
You
should
give your earnest attention to the duty of restricting the expenditure of the Colony within due bounds.
I have