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Payments to Seamen
These
payments
were made to
on account of the defalcations four Seamen whose monies had been
of the late W. Ho Newman entrusted to the late W. H. Newman
H.
Acting Harbor Master
£50.15.
in his official capacity as Acting He arbor Master. They
in the sum of £ 113.5 according to the Acting Aseditor
are included
which
was,
General's report of 29th April 1861, lost to the Colonial Government
through Mer Newman's defalcations..
Avas
forwarded to the
This report Secretary of State in
State in Liv Hercules
Robinson's despatch No 75 of 29th April 1861.
Personal Grant to
The expenditure under Report
His Excellency the Governor and Estimate Me 18 of 1859 towards furnishing
the
on
the
furniture of the private apartments private apartments of the of Government House amounted to
£274.79. The Secretary of State
Government Hoonae.
£950
This
payment-
together with a further
payment of £17.19.5.
was made under an
authority (as it would
appem) for a total expenditur of £ 274.19.5 including the grant of £ 2.50.
(Despatches)
decided that this expenditure ought
not to be charged to the Public and
consequently Sis Hercules Robinson frefunded the same to the local Treasury in October 1860 drawing at- the same
time there from
£9.50 which had been
a sum of
granted
anted to him
as a special allowance to assist him the pinchose of furniture:- During the
year
1860
a.
good
deal of the furniture in the
public rooms of Government-
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