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end

to

for the purpose of comparing dif..

=ferent years

one

/

with another __

that this shifting of

clature

fect

of

the

accounts should be

the

nomen =

the Parliamentary Vote on behalf of

the Fried Establishment ».

I think Sir John Davis

in 810. H.K: the Report on the Blue

would hardly congratulate

us as he doet

or else explained

Book

upon

the growth of the Revenue, - if

at every change

It was for the

the

increase of £2,378 indicated by

above purpose, and

not for

for the pur.

the figures be sends

لا

were

not

spose of enforcing the Rule of the

Treasuryp, before described, that

Mer Bonham

AN A

to instructed, seeing

longer

that the rule itself has no

amy "meaning

Now

that the Colonial

Revenue, considerably exceeds the sum

of

and

what is required for Public Works,

for Contingencies in the largest

acceptation of the latter term

that this

enciés

aud

to the reduction.

applicable of

the

а

bona fide one, and there is no very palpar able objection to such

a

ан

assumption.

Bet

close inspection of the table of Expenditure : joined to the absence

of any such marked congratulations.

in

me

the

as

case of the Revenue, makes think that Table entirely falban

-ciones

ao a

guide

to the real state

of facts. It is pretty clear that a large number of Officers had not

drawn their last Quarter's salary

when

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