expected to produce nearly
$500,000 instead of $200,000
and
under
Assessed Taxes and
Stamps which show respectively
increases
of $45,000 and $50,000,
4√ I learn also from your Despatches
No 263
&
26807
of
the 15th Sept & the 21st September that the
total Expenditure during this
year, including all Expenses on
account of
the New Territory, will
according to your anticipations,
fall well within the
a Revised
Estimate of Revenue.
to inform
5 I request you
to telegraph
me
by Telegraph
as
soon as
possible after the end of the
current year,
without
the Audit of
Accounts what are
the actual
receipts of 1899 and also what
is the actual Expenditure exclu-
ding the C.Agent's expenses for
the year.
If the Revenue proves to be
materially less than
your present
Revised Estimate, I request
that
you
will be good enough to include
in your Telegram a brief statement of the Heads under which the falling off
occurs.