CO129-091 - Acting Governor Mercer - 1863 [1-3] — Page 96

these Supplementary Estimates His .... Excelley asked me

if they, together

with the summs expended.

expended under the

Civil List Ordinance, Water Supply Ordinance and original Estimates, would exceed the expenditure contemplated weren the original Estimates

I

avere

feurred. I replied that they would not having onritted when I made this reply to take into consideration the ___ cxpenditure of the Agents General in England.

At week or live afterwards making up

my

in

the Accounts I discovend

error and immediately informed Y is Excellency of it, saying by way of cxplanation, that it occurred in

consequence of my

not

88

bing at the time in possession of the Agents General ... latest Accounts. I did not mean

to

convey

thereby

that the expenditure incured

by the Agents General had not been __ included in the Supplementary Estimates, but only that in making the reply, I

had omitted to take it into account_

The Supplementary Estimates are I.-- belieu quite correct_

In further externation of the mistake into which I fill I would draw His Excellencys attentiver to the difficulty I have in framing - Supplementary Estimated of the year before

the

year

my qual

the

is terminated. _ The Anditor's

Books being fanned upon those of the

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