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authorized Public Works with the Surveyor General, it has however not
found possible to effect a larger reduction than $71,225-
of
the details
which are
are shown
in the annexed list. All the
other Public Works had been
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either partially completed Government was bound by engagements with contractors from which it could not
withdraw. I addressed a Circular
to beads of Departments asking what retrenchments could be
effected
deventy one thous -two pundred and twenty five
Enclosure 2.
One million ine
effected by them. But, in consequence of the late period of the year,
reductions that are
Are
practicable
seareely worth taking into
the
account. A second revised
estimate of expenditure taking into consideration the reductions
proposed by the Surveyor General
and based on the actual expenditure of seven months,
dred right amounts to $1,183,600,
three thousand six hundred.
and I
regret to possible
say
that I see.
no
meand
of effecting any
further retrenchment. This will
leave