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2.

I feel very grateful for the

consideration which has been given to my case,

case, and for the proposed special grant of £250 which, as for

as I am personally

concerned, would be

an

the

arrangement highly farnable to me; but I feel at the came time that I ought not, for reasons which I shall specify to avail myself of this assistance without further reference to your Grace.

3.

In the first place there

appears from the correspondence above referred

referred to, to have been some

misconception

as

to the

general

The

practice throughout the Colonies as regards the supply of furniture for government Houses. "general rule" of the service is quoted as forbidding the fummisling

the

of the private apartments at the public expense,

and it is stated

"that" general practice imposes

"that charge on the Governors: Mat whatever

have been the

may

Colonia Regulations intention

intention of the

Cup 3. Szet 2. Art 269-

of the Regulation to which I am referred by the Lord- Commissioners ofster Majesty's Treasury, it is I believe generally understood as prescribing, not the maximum but only the