CO129-078 - Sir Robinson - 1860 [7-12] — Page 34

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I shall consider as final their

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Lordships decision that all pensions to be: hereafter granted shall be defrayed from the local revenue; that the abatements- made from Saluries, while those salaries paid from Imperial funds, be retained in the Imperial Exchequer,

but that the abatements from the Saluries of the Civil Servants who were · pirid from the local revenue will be repaid to the Colonial

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Government, and I shall confine myself. to investigating the amount which under - the terms of this decision is due to the -

Colony: -

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For this purpose I annex a- Return showing the Parliamentary Grant

See Return

Annexed

and the

Expenditure of the Colony for each

year from 1847 to 1857, logether with a statement of the Superannuation abutements

Parliamentary Estimate: 1855/16

Sient.

Governor 2000

Colonial Secretary 1,200

Colonial Treasurer too

made from Salaries during that period.

4.

As

regards the abatements for the period from 124 April 1854 to 30€ June 1857, Amointing to £2,198. 9. 2, their Lordships. observe that they " will be prepared to repay to "the Colonial Greasury such proportion of this

"Sum as

may

such

" from

be ascertained to have been deducted,

"the local revenue.

of the Salaries us were,

us were paid from

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During the period.--

were made by

mentioned only two grants

Parliament, being for the years 1854/55 and

1855/56.. In the latter

year

£3800 was voted

amount voted - $15,000 to defray the salaries of three officers specified,