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sum of 77,651 dollars from the total increase of 98,483 dollars, there remains an
increase on other accounts of 20,832 dollars. It is not practicable without an ~ inordinate amount of detail to set out the exact components of this balance which is a net and not a
gross increase,
the estimates under some
heads, and notably under No%, the Public Works
Department, having been
decreased;
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484
decreased; but I will mention the chief items of gross
increase or decrease
of
expenditure, irrespective of loss by exchange.
Pensions: apart from
7.
equalization,
of $5,400.
an increase.
Public Works department.
a decrease of #6,203. It will
be observed that the establishment
provided for approximates very closely to that reported by. my despatch W: 215 of 16th -
ultime