100
18
267
this is a large sum to expect, I believe the result will continue to justify his careful calculations.
9. The total expenditure for 1882, sanctioned by the Appropriation Ordinance and by the Civil List amounts to $1,051,614, leaving a surplus on the estimated transactions of the year of $80,246, and a balance to the credit of the Colony on the 31st of December 1882 of $489,078.
10. On the total of the Establishment charges there is an increase of $17,561. This is partly accounted for by additions to the Estimates for which I have already obtained Your Lordship's sanction, such as the augmentation of the salaries of the Clerks in the Police Department, and the personal allowance to M. Lister, the Postmaster General. My despatch No. 120 of the 30th July, 1881, on the Offices of the Supreme Court deals with the scale of salaries which the Legislature has now sanctioned. Your Lordship will be addressed in a separate despatch on some other items in these Estimates, including the cost of the new department of the Government Marine Surveyor under the Merchant Shipping Ordinance.
11. I have been able, with the assistance of the Legislative Council, to act, without delay, on Your Lordship's suggestion