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sir,
I have the honour to acknowledge the re-
ceipt of your despatch No.50 of 16th.February, 1900, on the sub-
ject of the Financial position of the Colony.
2. Referring to your query at the end of pa~
ragraph 4, the items of increase of revenue were as follows:-
Licences
Fees of Court
27,000
3,000
$ 6,000
Rent of property.
Miscellaneous receipts
(excluding subsidiary coin)-$ 14,000
Subsidiary coin (Estimate) - $ 13,000
Land sales
$124,0
000
187,000
Deficit General Post Office-$ 12,000
* 175,000
As regards Expenditure, there must be some mistake. The esti-
mated expenditure as stated in the Estimates enclosed with my despatch No.269 was $ 3, 109,560. The amount including the
The Right Honourable
JOSEPH CHAMBERLAIN, M.P,,
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