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10.
The general feeling among the unofficial Members of the Legislature, and I think I may add among the community, is not that money generally should be begrudged for what is really necessary for effective defence, but they have had some reason to complain that the authorized complement of guns for fortifications, on which during the last five or six years a sum of £16,000 has been expended, has not yet arrived.
11.
I am glad to be able to say that the financial condition of the Colony still continues satisfactory, as will be seen by the returns for last year, but I concur in what was stated by Mr. McEwen that we should not rely too implicitly on the Revenue...