be the intention, as Shardly
naturally the expenditure on public entertainment would
in some months be more.
Mr O'Brien desires
to add that in no
case ... the consent to draw
any portion.
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therefore very respectfully requests that in the event of Your Lord-
ship being of opinion that
such a requirement should be enforced some arrangement
may be made whereby he may
be relieved from the duty of administering the Government
on the condition of the allowance precedent to his doing
so were a requirement that he should previously satisfy the Treasurer that he had actually expended equivalent amount, and he
therefore ... future absences of the Governor. In the present instance
he considers that he is entitled
to the allowance, and as I have declined to draw it, he claims
it, although as already stated he