of salaries of Public officers.
{
my
These resolutions were,
suggestion, withdrawn upon my undertaking to forward a copy of them to Your Lordship. I mentioned that the principle of doing away with personal allowances and fees had ~
already met with Your Lordship's sanction, but that
Encl: 6+7
1
691
(5), Copy of two Reports
of the Finance Committee
-agreeing to the reduction of
the rate of postage from 10
cents to 7 cents and to the
expenditure proposed for Extraordinary
Public Works during 1891.
(6) Copy of a
could not have committed
the Government to a
intent to agree to
the proposals contained in the
4th and 5th Resolutions.
Encl: 8.
Memorandum signed by the
the
official Members on question of expenditure on
Public Works.
There
are
many
suggestions