Enclosure 0.
Protest
700
RECEIVED
13161
(Red 30 JUN 91)
Whereas at a meeting of this Honorable Council held on the 26th day of March 1890 past, a vote was taken for the payment out of the Colonial Treasury to the Military Chest of a sum of Twenty thousand Pounds Sterling £20,000, or its equivalent in dollars, as additional Military Contribution for and in respect of the year 1890;
And Whereas no portion of the monies so voted was disbursed during the year ending the 31st December last;
And whereas for the payment out of any portion thereof after the said 31st day of December a vote or Revote by this Council was requisite and His Excellency the Governor had no authority to issue his Warrant for, except perhaps in a case of Extreme necessity;
And whereas at the meeting of Council held on the 30th day of April last His Excellency the Governor, Sir George William des Voeux, in his place in Council, stated in reply to a question that he had on the 21st February last, on his own responsibility and without the authority of this Council, by his Warrant, directed payment out of the Colonial Treasury of the said sum of Twenty thousand dollars, as additional Military Contribution in respect of the year 1890;