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to the Council. The Book

of

Colonial

is quite explicit on the point. Regulations is quite explicit

Thus much I have stated to thew tthat the decision was not hasty,- bit

I wored by no means imply that I have found reason lince to fear that it was crroneous. On the Contrary it is evident that in these distant Possessions we

are in

danger of extravagant expenditure of the soverrors, and that we

we really possess no satisfactory means at home of grappling with that evil. Any aid herefore which can be derived from the a brustworthy body litting

Criticisms

of a

on the spot must be very

valuable.

on che

The report of Privy fameil Cape to which Lieeit Governor Caine refers, appears to me to be beside the immediate question. That report discussed the mode of creating a Representative Legislative and suggested.

the well known and nonal expedient

of securing a fixed civil list for some chayes

fit to be

to be subjected to the Annual debates of a popular

which were not

Assembly.

The

case, it will be seen,

of

quite different from that

a

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Colony with a small hominee Carncil.

But still I find itial experience.

ttie Grown

may

has suggested, even in some Colonies a modification which it perhaps be thought fit to extered to

There must be an inconvenience Vdong Kong.

in every year hubmitting to the Camail every single salary of thre

the Saverument Establishment, and the mere trouble of

tthat course, and multiplicity of items which it involves may

a

the

constitute

fair objection wismall Colonies the opportunity afforded for debates on petty topies may diminish rather than increase the efficiency of the Council's Control over important. classes

of expense. The course pursued

· pursued therefore in Ceylon, the greatest perhaps of ow Rown Colonies, has been to pass an Ordinance poriding permanently for the salaries of the Officers of the fixed Establishments of the Government, leaving

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Miscellaneous

i

Assembly.