CO129-020 - Sir John Davis - 1847 [5-8] — Page 163

to this

more correct and regular statement of the Expenditure and Revenue, for the official

the saving

(and not the Kalendar) years, instead of being only £5759.7.0, has been

£15547.17.1.

· is a statement of

the

The following Parliamentary Notes for the Civil Disbursements

in China

on account of both the Colony and the Consulates since I took charge, in 1844._

1845. — Colony and Consulates . _ £00,000.

18.46.

1847.

Do

D:

Do

Fi

64,800.

#

58,000.

This orchibits a reduction in two

successive years, of £22,000 on the whole. The

records of the Foreign Office will show the retrenchments which I have effected at the Consulates; and the reduction of Salaries in the Colony, with the

augmentation

of the annual Revenue to £20,000,

(without any charges

any charges on Commerce)

Revenue!

[

Receipts since May, 1846. £yo,sta

Previous to that date ... 1815.

will explain the diminished calls on the Public

with reference to the Colony.

My.

motive.

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in making this representation

is to induce Her Majesty's Government to extend

it's liberality to the Colony,

in allowing a part

of the Colonial saving on the votes for the tive

official years to be appropriated to Public Works

already sanctioned. Without this, I fear that the

$3,000, may vote for the current year, virs:

prove rather inadequate, and that I may have

to delay the completion of Roads, Bridges and other Works which, by benefiting the Colony,

tend to the increase of its Revenue

Another

year,

or at the most two years, will

complete this first and productive outlay, and I have little doubt that when the Expenditure has been

once

brought down to its permanent current rate, the Revenue will be made to equal the Disbursements.

I have the honor to be,

With