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"necessity to be demonstrated by the
a severe epidemic
inresistible logic of a severe
3.
in BonJILON
with the
that
Executive Council, I entirely agree under all ordinary circumstances, it is desirable that the Regulations should be
enforced, which prescribe that the
" annual expenditure shall be, as far as possible, confined within the Annual Estimate", though it is well known that it has been rarely found practicable, either in the Imperial or the Colonial Legislatures, to avoid altogether Supplementary
"See Mr. Chadwick's Report- page 5.
Estimates.
Estimates. But it would appear that, (of course through inadvertence), the Colonial Department has failed to
point out that the case
in this respect, is, this year, wholly
exceptional. The Estimates for 1885
were
framed and approved last year, many months before my
arrival in this Colony
in last March; and
necessarily without reference to, or indeed knowledge of, Mr. Chadwick's report, which did not reach Hongkong until the early part of this year. That Report was transmitted with Lord
Kimberley's