desired to say, that the Governor is perfectly willing to authorise the payment of the Bounty—as already intimated in my letter of the 20th Ultimo—from the Civil Department, although he still retains his opinion that it will not be allowed to continue a permanent charge thereto. In time however, Mr Stewart, the Financial Secretary and Treasurer, will pay Major General D'Aguilar may direct to receive and distribute it amongst the Volunteers, the amount to whomever the Honorable the
Sam further desired to say, that the Governor has already by two different opportunities, transmitted to Her Majesty's Principal Secretary of State for the Colonies, the fullest explanation of the imperious necessity that had arisen for the immediate organization of a strong and efficient Police in this Colony and that whilst he feels highly indebted to the Honorable the Major General for the anxious readiness with which he met his views on this important matter—he is quite prepared to take the entire responsibility of the measure on himself, and does not allow himself to entertain the smallest doubt but it will not merely be sanctioned, but be fully approved by Her Majesty's Government since it was a measure that may be declared to have become positively necessary to the well-being, and even existence of Colony, in which it appeared for a time to be almost a struggle whether the local Government or the desperate bands of Robbers who had come across from the Mainland of China, should have the upper hand.
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