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materially improved in several directions since I prepared my address to the Council. I have already stated to four Councillors what economies & considerations may be judiciously effected in the salary expenditure.
12. Paragraph 11 is not a little curious and difficult to understand. It states that the Unofficial Members are the guardians of the public purse, and that it was in vindication of their rights and powers as such, as well as for the protection of the interests of the Colony, that they were compelled, on account of the treatment they had received, to move for the immediate reduction of certain salaries. This is not the first occasion on which it has been contended that the Unofficial Members not only have, with their official colleagues, Members of the Legislative Council a responsibility such...