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PUBLIC RECORD OFFICE, LONDON

Lord Grey to Lord Torrington;

July 17, 1848:

7. Commissariat charge, sanc-

tioned by Her Majesty's Government

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Ditto, voted by Legislative

Council

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Total

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2,712 15 10

54,814 14 9

£425,040 14 4

Of these charges, those noticed as sanctioned by Her Majesty's Government, amounting to 228,7901. 10s. 4d., were not subject revision by the local Legislature, but were considered as "fixed" expenditure, to be revised or altered only by the Home Government. The Legislative authority of the Legislative Council was restricted to the expenditure of a fluctuating description, of which no permanent estimate could be made. It may be mentioned, here that it has been a

New Papers printed for Parlia recent measure of Lord Grey's, with a view to a

ment, pp. 333, 884.

more rigid economy, to concede the controul of the entire civil expanditure to the Legislative Council, subject only to a permanent provision to be made by local ordinance, on which, sa, on all other ordinances, a veto would of course rest with Her Majesty, for the most, necessary part of the establishment.

In the "Civil Charges voted by the Legislative Council" are included the votes for Public Works, such as repairs of meda, already in ex- istence, the constmation of new roads, the building of bridges, &c. It would hare hegn de- sirable to ascertain expetly the mma.expended in each year under these heads: but the form in which the acopunta are kept, and the circumstance that these sums are generally paid, not, by the Central Treasury but by the local agents, and are included in their accounts, renders it impos- sible to do so.

The amounts appropriated by ordinanas to those ampines during five years, appear to bare

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