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169
3°
2.
I
in
regret the delay
forwarding
these
Estimates which is,
however, in a
great
measure attributable to the fact that until Your Lordship's approval of the works referred to in desp
patch
my ho
tch N: 266 of the 10th
of August had been
received, it was not,
possible to frame the Estimates of Public Works Extraordinary for the ~
coming
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coming year.
Owing also to the
late date at which Your
Lordship's approval of the
increased salaries was communicated to the various departments, in consequence of the opposition to the payment of the.
increased rates
он
the
part of certain of the Un-official Members, which formed the subject of the
correspondence noted in
the