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NEW BRUNSWICK.
PUBLIC
RECORD OFFICE
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TLC.O. 882
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PUBLIC RECORD OFFICE, LONDON
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1854.
See Blue Book of 1853,
WITH respect to New Brunswick a favourable account can also be given, though there has not been displayed the same vigour in political and industrial pursuits in this as in the adjoining Province of Canada. Responsible government prevails here too. It was introduced in 1849, and has been attended with the usual success. The income of the Province was prosperous
in 1853, as will be observed from Table A, and it is the more striking because the revenue of 1852 was itself in excess of that of 1851 by more than 20,0001. currency; so that the differ- Lieut.-Governor's despatch, January 4, ence between 1851 and 1853 amounts to 67,3641. currency, or nearly 60 per cent. on the revenue of the first of these two years, and during these three years the tariff has not varied. The revenue of 1853 exceeded the expenditure; but, on the other hand, the expenditure of 1854 and 1855, has in each
year exceeded the revenue. This unfavourable difference was ocasioned by the commercial distress, and want of shipping—felt everywhere during the war. The system of financial administration in New Brunswick has long been regarded by the home authorities and by the Governor as defective, because the House of Assembly would not vest in the Governor the initiation of money votes; joba therefore were perpetrated, and money probably misappropriated, which the Local Government could not prevent. But resolution having been affirmed last
your in the House of Assembly, conceding taabe Executive Government the right of initiating money grants, and adopting in this respect the practice of the Imperial Parliament, there is reason to hope that a just and sonomical appropriation of the public money will be secured henceforward............
A long debated question as to the territorial line