CO129-098 - Sir Robinson - 1864 [4-5] — Page 132

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General, but as I found that provision had been made for them in the Estimates for the current year already approved of by your Grace, and no sufficient excuse was given for omitting them, I was urged to justify their being brought forward in such an irregular manner, I declined to sanction them.

3.

At the same time, I caused TW: Cleverly to be informed that it is very inconvenient to have the expenditure upon public works brought forward in this desultory manner, instead of the whole subject being considered comprehensively when the annual Estimates are under discussion, and that I should therefore refuse to sanction any Supplementary Estimate not rendered necessary by a deficiency Estimate, or by some contingency which could not have been foreseen or which it might be indispensable to provide for.

4.

The Supplementary Estimate for additions to the Supreme Court now transmitted comes, I think, within this latter class, for...

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130 us any General, but as I found that provision had been made for them in the Estimates for the current year already approved of by your Grace, and no sufficient excuse was given for omitting them, I was urged to justify their being brought forward in such an irregular manner, I declined to sanction them. 3. At the same time, I caused TW: Cleverly to be informed that it is very inconvenient to have the expenditure upon public works brought forward in this desultory manner, instead of the whole subject being considered comprehensively when the annual Estimates are under discussion, and that I should therefore refuse to sanction any Supplementary Estimate not rendered necessary by a deficiency Estimate, or by some contingency which could not have been foreseen or which it might be indispensable to provide for. 4. The Supplementary Estimate for additions to the Supreme Court now transmitted comes, I think, within this latter class, for...
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