CO129-065 - Sir Bowring & Public Offices - 1857 [11-12] — Page 41

Panduer, Si P. Barrow and other gentlemenced

Carversant with the praction of

Colonies and they all

lepar

the

subject

арсе

on the point.

"I would particularly recommend to your Attention the very good and enfferent rules

et contained at pages 97 Preg. Colonial Regulations, where this well. ofitee know prinsiple is distinvetly laid downs. All men in the Colonies Sir I. Bowring is the very last who, by his Inacagement of the finances, ought to be exempt from this well

· established rule of Colonial Povernment.

of

For these reasons I would strongly recommend that di d. Bavring be dislivetty

wishusted that his Annual Estimates

hot on

on lay

to be laid on this table of the

are

Legislative Council, hit are to be submitted to Their vote, and are in all respects to be de alt with in exact conformity with the rules laid down in the book of Colonial

W Blackword

of Colonial Regulations, 2.7 28 facty

Can you find anything home former conest. to confirm, or dispion, Fir)B's statement, but the rclimatio had rear her submitted 2te (mail in tr.K. before his time?

1m Jan 29

595 Hong Kong

758.

Sir J. Boaning

39

is correct in stating that the (lovine

Estimates were never submitted to the dye Cousin ? in me occasion, as after specified.

es

except bug Sir G. Bonham

undil his epumption of thee & whe

of Sir John Bourings

added that this practice is a

Λ

q

vely

" recent one-

since the reconstruction of the L. C. ance the introduction unto that torby Body,

The more,

cement - a quater number of unoff is

I certainly have alwa... entertained

"

the persuasion that the rules laid down at Bay of the Colonial Regulations in Estimates were

were deserved at Honey

gaiss. to Colonial

and I

tugais. at Honey Hong do not know how the Govermens obscreation in his despatch of the 26 Manel /56 (Pas copy Annexed I 6) that the Feasurer only prepared.

notice. Popilly The Estimates excaped my

because

the general subject of theat death (the recasting of the L. (.)

was not handled bey

re

Tought

Runtheless to have called attention to his statement

But why on that point.

should not Sir!

Bouring obey the Book of Colonical Rexelations in this respect as well as his Predixfer? on. the 20 June (46 Si G. Bonham mute as