the Treasurer's statement of 10th May last, which has already been forwarded to Desp. W:119 Your Lordship, as $2,342,837.26, and this is presumably the correct amount of the expenditure brought to account up to the end of the year.
But the real expenditure of the year exceeds that amount by the sum of $109,971.71, above mentioned, and the real excess of expenditure over revenue amounts to $215,875.60 instead of $105,903.89, as shown in that statement. (19th June, 1893.), Gor 202
In this connection, I may remind Your Lordship that the Government became further indebted in 1892 to the Praya reclamation fund in a sum of $168,506.84 transferred from deposits to current account under the circumstances reported in my Confidential despatch of 11th May, 1892. A portion of this Gov 92