CO129-063 - Sir Bowring - 1857 [4-7] — Page 307

Colony to pecuniary

Aid,

you

I must remund

that the sum of Ten Amand founds (₤10.000) Steps granted by

Parliament this year

is exclusively applicable

expenses required

of precaution

for measures of pre- und defence. No ordinary

works of local interest, however desirable in themselves

fwould fall within the

umprees for which the and of Parliament has been thus

voted,

& it is my deity

strictly to warn

warn you against any such application of the Superial Grant.

Shavere

of Colonial Expendition to be decided According

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to the state

of the Colorial Finances.

But I quite agree

Blackwood's warning

in Mr.

about the

Governor's niclination to encroach

Giant,

on the Parliamentary

And

I think that it will be

undispensable not to let his remarks in his present despatchs pass by without an admonition.

on that point.

244 August.