CO129-100 - Sir Robinson - 1864 [9] — Page 239

M 140 of 1884

Melosure N. 1 in Despatch

Resolution by the majority

of the Legislative Council

13th September 1864.

231

Extract

of

I note from Mr Ball, Acting

Chief Justice, to Sir Hercules Robinson, dated 19th September 1864.

 

"I felt it to be

my duty to vote

against the pension, and

for this reason

'I folli

against

that a pension is an allowance

in consideration of past services, that the Salary of the Bishop whilst in office not having been

derived out of Colonial Revenues, and

his duties being over

a vast expanse of territory other than what is included within

the limits of the Colony, he is not a servant

of the Colony, and, as a consequence,

the funds of the Colony can with no greater propriety be rendered chargeable with a

pension..."

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