CO129-026 - Bonham - 1848 [9-12] — Page 268

due for works in

· progress under contract.

These Contracts have nearly been completed. £1105 and must be paid for They aggregate

£. 4,003 . 9. 4, and here again . - obligations incurred.

are due

1,445.4.0 2205.15-4

237-4.4-

the amounts £4003.9.

4

by my

Predecessor, with the exception of £237, 4.7

I have directed that all

Public Works that

of credit, be

can

stopped..

be with any degree

I have also caused-

some reductions to be immediately

in

the

made

minor part of the Establishments,

to take effect from the 1st proxime; and

for the present it is

my

intention to

refrain from drawing my own salary,

which measures will, I trust, enable-

to get through the

year

year .

me

without stopping

the salaries due to the different functionaries, which cannot be done without subjecting many of them to great

inconvenience).

I am aware,

this measure, is

My Lord, that

only a temporary expedient,

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and that the surplus expenditure of this

of £. 25,000 must.

year beyond the sum be paid during the ensuing

one;

but

Your Lordship's orders are distinct, and

positive, and leave-

me no discretion; and

the mode of procedure therefore appears to

be the only one left whereby the business

of the Colony

can.

be carried on without

direct disobedience to instructions.

9.

1

my

The reductions of the Colonial_

- Establishments to a permanent footing

consistent with the absolute requirements

attentive-

of the Colony, will have my consideration - I propose making it the matter of a Separate Despatch which shall be transmitted. to Your Lordship by the Mail which conveys this one.

10.

think it proper to remark,

that in explaining.

explaining to Your Lordship

that most of the Expenses

an accoun

accou

were- incurred

of Public Works were

by

the

必