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PUBLIC RECORD OFFICE

Reference :-

TLC.O.

885

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PUBLIC RECORD OFFICE, LONDON

£

3. d.

20,453 3 11

-

12,108 13 10

4

under these different heads in that year, were as

follows: .

1. Sea Customs, viz. :—

Export duty on Cinnamon

Ditto on other articles

Import duty on Rice and Paddy Ditto on other articles of food Ditto on other articles not used

as food

2. Assessment on lands growing

rice and paddy

Ditto on other grain

3. Duty on arrack, wines, and

spirits

4. Salt

5. Sale of lands

75,111 11 10 5,812 9 3

6. Stamps

7. Tolls

30,973 13 5

41,262 4 8

6,025 2 11

61,518 6 I

36,160 17 7

37,946 13 4

22,342 16 3

8. All other sources of revenue

-

24,934 9 59,378 13

2

4

£434,028 14 7

The expenditure in 1845, under its different

heads, was as follows:-

1. Civil charges sanctioned by Her

Majesty's Government

-

55,803 8

3

-

97,592 0 10

Ditto voted by Legislative

Council

-

2. Judicial charges, sanctioned by Her Majesty's Govern-

ment

Judicial charges voted by Le-

gislative Council

37,581 10

7

-

-

15,728 10 4

1

18,425 1 3

3. Revenue charges sanctioned by

Iler Majesty's Government - 39,016 2 Ditto voted by Legislative

Council

-

4. Miscellaneous, sanctioned by Her Majesty's Government - Ditto, voted by Legislative

Council

5. Pensions and other civil charges

paid in England

6. Military charges, sanctioned by

3,822 10 3

5,731 12

33,863 7 9

7

2,958 4 3

Her Majesty's Government - 56,990 15 Ditto voted by Legislative

Council

·

Lord Grey to Lord Torrington;

July 17, 1848.

New Papers printed for Parlia.

ment, pp. 333, 334.

5

7. Commissariat charges, sanc- tioned by Her Majesty's Government

Ditto, voted by Legislative

Council

Total

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 228,790. 108. 4d., were not subject to 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 recent measure of Lord Grey's, with a view to a more rigid economy, to concede the controul of the entire civil expenditure to the Legislative Council, subject only to a permanent provision to be made by local ordinance, on which, as 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 roads already in ex- istence, the construction of new roads, the building of bridges, &c. It would have been de- sirable to ascertain exactly the sums expended in each year under these heads: but the form in which the accounts 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 ordinance to these services during five years, appear to have been as follows:-

£

1843

39,818

1844

74,844

1845

113,858

1846

41,000

1847

44,060

Average

£62,716