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

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Ordnance Department is executing the most expensen Civil building the Public Offices ), the cost of which alone, £14,300, is

half. half the " the Revenue of the Colony. Without

sum

the permission above quoted, therefore, the provision of ways

of ways and means would be embarrassment . As the sum

a serious.

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in question has been once destined for the Colony, and is the rosult of a guarded expenditure, Itruct the permission given may not be withdrawn.

I

In my Despatch N. 14 of 12th February, I embodied a sketch of the chief

items of Colonial Expenditure and Resources,

of which the following

Total Civil Expenditure.

-Colonial Offices.

is an abstract.

Lu4,500.

Other Public Works . _ 20,700.

+

39,370.

35,000.

74,870.

Total Estimated Revenue.

Surplus of Previous Votes of

Parliament

Pupposed,

tote

Isle for current as for last year -

6

L

28,000.

"

9119

37.119.

36,900.

74,019.

One or five years will complete the

Colony,

Civil Public Works incidental to a new

and a fixed rate of annual Expenditure then be arrived at - Your Lordship has already noticed the reductions which

may

I have made in some Salaries.

of the principal Civil

I have the honor to be,

"With the highest respect, Your Lordship's

Most Obedient,

Humble Servant,

inDanis

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