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and Allowance of the Appropriation Ordinance for 1882, and signifying Your Lordship's approval of the Estimates for 1882.
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Your Lordship's approval of the Estimates is made subject to certain remarks, on the so-called revenue from the alienation of Crown Lands; on the revenue derived from Junks, Cargo boats, and Fishing boats; the provisional increase of M. Ford's emoluments by $600 a year; the vote of $600 for tree-planting; the vote for the Normal School; the increase in the salaries of Wardmaster for the Lunatic Asylum and Smallpox hospital, and the appointment of Assistant Superintendent of the Hospital; the payment to Mr. Wodehouse as Coroner; the fact that further provision is made for the conversion of the Lock Hospital into a General Hospital; the source from which the Typhoon-breakwater is to be defrayed and the apparently long delay in connection with that work; and the supposed omission to furnish sufficient information before commencing the work.
Your Lordship suggests,
3. that the money derived from the sale of Crown Lands should be regarded rather in the light of capital than in that of annual revenue. In my...