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Can

" justly be Fakew

to the view which you have hitherto held

of thei's question.

At the same

time it is my duty

that

to unfore you there has been some

misapprehension on the subject. The course to

be followed in pespect of the Annual Estivvatio of Colonial Revenue

And Expenditure, and in respect also of taxation, is laid down

at page 99 of thre

book

book of Colmial

43

Regulations. You will there find chat

every

tein

of expenditure

And of laxation mud

must

meet with a concurrence

of the majority of the Legislative Council, and

is then to be passed in the form of aw Ordinancy and

directions are giver

for the course to be followed in case co majority of the Camail should dissent from the Estimates. These

rules