CO129-078 - Sir Robinson - 1860 [7-12] — Page 37

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The same remarks apply in effect:

to all the previous years -

it

may

doubtless be

a to them

with regard -urged against the -

Colony that the Parliamentary grant of each year would have been sufficient to pay the salaries from which abatements were made if it had been specially set a

for,

apart

and applied to this particular purpose,

On the other hand, it

may,

with equal~ fairness, be urged on hehalf of the Colony -

that the grant

never was so appropriated

by Parliament, or applied by the Colony; that the Grant was insufficient after 1849/50. to pay all the salaries. Contributors and

non contributors-, and that the local revenue

from the

мегу

Commencement was

far more

than sufficient to pay the salaries subject

Total abatements 5303.5.8 Labatements on 4.

salaris voted by 220.0.

Parliament in 1854.

5,083.5.8

to

-Superannuation deductions.

8.

It appears to me

therefore that

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unless an Arbitrary and imaginary application

to be made

of these Parliamentary votes is now to be

there is no more

I ground for saying that the Salaries, from which abatements were made

prior to 1834, were

· paid from Imperial funds,

and not from local revenue, than there is for Asserting the reverse. Under these aroumstances I am induced to hope that their Lordships may feel disposed to give the Colony the- benefit of the doubt, and refund the whole of the superannuation contributions with the exception of the abatements made on

the

four salaries specially voted by Parliament

in 1834