CO129-032 - Sir Bonham - 1850 [1-4] — Page 55

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This arises

s from my not having sufficient. at ony disposal for

Funds at on

the service

f

the Financial ended 31th March,

year

1849, in consequence of which I found it necessary, as I anticipated in my Despatch Nr. 108 of 16th December, 1848, to postpone many payments, (moet of those in fact which appear in the Detailed. Estimate), till the

ement of the present. "Financial. year in April last, which payments ought, and were intended, to have been

commen ce

made during the last financial year.

11.

Exclusive of the two items

£ 1,250 and £1,815, above referred to,

there

are

f

still two other small claims on

the Government ; - one

Mr. Campbell's

due to Mr. Campbell Passage money

the late Acting Chief Justice. ; and, the

£254.6.2

other to the Fruiters of St. John's bathadral, Functies of th amounting conjointly to £442.10.02.

John's Cathedral.

£188.3.

10ź

A

12.

now

537

therefore

Your Lordship may consider that the financial embarrassments of the Colony have ceased, and that I shall have at the close of the Financial.

year in March next, somewhere about.

my

be

£. 5,000 at

disposal, which devoted to the erection of a Government- House, should Your Lordship's reply

to

my

Despatch Nr 82 of 25th August

last, warrant its commencem

ment; buit.

I would respectfully remark that this

sum should not be considered available

and

for the cxpenditure of next year,

of £20,000 with still.

that the sum

be required for the Colony, should it. be determined to build, a Government House.

I have the honor to be,

With the highest respect,

Your Lordships,

Most. Obedient,

Humble Servant,

Malam

!