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Legislatures, to avoid the introduction of ... shipplementary Estimetos. Not to mention
muany
other emergeneic which enforce
expenditure;
such
as war; pestilence, and commercial. depression or disaster, ib will be recollected
extraordinary uved immediate expena
that, in the fine phrase of Lord Rufferin, "Nature herself often rives upugainst a "Colonial Government. This is expecially
the case in a tropical Colony,
circumstanced as is Hongtong, where extraordinary and immediate.
of
outlay
I public fundo is constantly required
to repair
the
damages
to public
buildings
H
3.
buildings, and to roads, bridges, wharves, and other public Works, caused, directly
or indirectly, by floods and hurricanes.
Fo
sum up : — there is
there is ample
documentary evidence to prove that »
the
every effort has been made to maintain. striel economy, especially during recent financial depression. In fact,
it would have been im possible, without
verious
● financial embarrassment, to
have carried out the extensive Works
Hater Supply, Sanitation, and (). efe ne which Her Majesty's Government e-
directed to be undertaken, if every economy
consultat