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was alluded to by Mr. Anstruther, he stated that he had not known how it had occurred' (16,716), and that he "could not account for it". (16,717), but that it was probably an addition to salaries by a diminution of the expenditure upon roads.

I have caused an abstract to be made of the items which go to form this addition to the fixed establishment.

I find that between 1840 and 1848, it amounts to no less than 47,5451. per annum.

I find that of this the greater proportion was recommended in the years 1843 and 1844, when' there was a large temporary addition to the colonial revenue,

from the increased sale of cin- namon and Crown lands.

It appears to me to have been suggested by the fallacious appearance which the revenue then presented; I mean the temporary appearance which led to this permanent addition to the fixed expenditure of the colony.

It took place chiefly under the government of Sir Colim Campbell.

Mr. Wodehouse, in a memorandum upon the subject of Mr. Anstruther's evidence before Lord George Bentinck's Committee, in 1848, sent home to the Secretary of State (as an in- closure to the despatch No. 148, 15th August, 1848), says it is well known at that time "that Sir Colin Campbell had little or nothing to do with the despatches which he signed, but which were prepared by Mr, Anstruther."

Mr. Wodehouse was Mr. Anstruther's assistant secretary, and many of these despatches are in his handwriting.

The analysis of this addition to the fixed establishment, shows that of 47,5451. perma- nently added to the expenditure, for salaries and new appointments between 1841 and 1848, the despatches recommending each addition were prepared in the following proportion :—

By George Turnour, Esq.

318 0

J. d. 0

P. Anstruther and P. E. Wodehouse, Esq. 42,172 10 74

Hit J. E. Tennent

The Secretary of State

1 Excellency Viscount Torrington

2,549 19 0

800 0 0 1,705 7 0

£47,545 16 78

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Of this sum of 47,0001.,' about— £8,000 was occasioned by additions to the Civil Establishment and Boards of Public Worka.

13,000 to the Judicial Department. 11,000 to the Revenue Branch.

1,600 to the Medical Establishment.

1,000 to the Ecclesiastical ditto.

1,500 to the Commissioners of Education and

Schobls.

2,000 to the Military and Commissariat; be- sides numerous additions in smaller sums, under other heads."

Mr. Anstruther (7781) has offered an expla- nation on this subject: he admits that Sir Colin Campbell, at his suggestion, made these additions to the fixed establishment; but Mr. Anstruther

is of opinion that the addition is apparent rather than real, and "a mere technical transfer from the head of unfixed expenditure to that of fixed establishment; in fact, that the same amount of money was previously paid under the unfixed establishment instead of the fixed.”

I have carefully analyzed the return, and I find that this is not correct. I find, that out of

a list containing upwards of 174 items so added to the fixed establishment, only two are mere transfers from the unfixed to the permanent expenditure. And I find that of the only amount so transferred from the contingent to the fixed expenditure, is 5,1721. 148. lid.; and that the remainder, amounting to 42,8781. 13. 8d. per annum, are positive additions to the previous outlay of the colony.

But even were it otherwise; were it as Mr. Anstruther says, a mere transfer from the unfixed to the fixed establishment of the colony,

I cannot but consider so large an addition to the permanent sawuditure, to have been im- prudetak, based "il was on an accidental and

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