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accompanying the Estimates will be transmitted in another Despatch.
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The revenue for 1881 is estimated at $1,084,663. Though this is $120,569 more than was actually received in 1879, I have no reason to consider it an overestimate. On the contrary, looking to the actual receipts in the current year, I think Mr. Fownes, the Acting Treasurer, is fully justified in his anticipations as to the Colonial income in 1881.
The Expenditure of 1881 I estimate at $986,422, which leaves an estimated surplus of $98,241.
The Estimates for the Supreme Court are framed in accordance with the general instructions contained in Sir Michael Hicks Beach's Despatch No. 141 of 24 October 1879.
I have not inserted in these Estimates the details of the Interpretation Department, as it will be my duty to submit them separately, in a further despatch, for Your Lordship's consideration. Should these details be sanctioned, it will cause a slight modification of the present Estimates.
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The Establishment charges of the Supreme Court are now made subject to a provisional and temporary payment of $2,400 as one of the Staff of the Colonial ...
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