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year would be requisite. I

also desired to enclose

retumade by Ld say,

a copy of the reply, instincting

no

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the Governor that in no case must

he reckon upon any

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aid

beyond

:

Grant,

the amount of the actual

he should

and that boy susans therefore

by me

the reduction or postponement

of such Public Works as

may

admit of it, be should

endeavour to bring the Expenditure.

within the amount of the

available resources.

2. The information received

from Governor Bonham suggests

two Questions, the one as to the

grounds

An

which the Estimate

iubmitted to Parliament this

year was calculated, the other.

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as to the

which by deficiency which

these

Reports is shown to have.

ausk

Accord in the Finances of

accrued

6 years ago,

Hong Hong several and never get to have been abjusted.

3. On the former point,

I am desired to observe that

th

Despatch 2. 104 of

the 24th of September 1847,

which

Copy is curled,

the late Governor of Hong Flong furnished his Estimate

of the probable Revenue and probable demands of the approaching Financial Year.

The estimated amount

of the ordinary Expenditure

estimated for Cuffian.

- was adopted from his statement.

being