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Sir,
Downing Street,
25th June, 1866.
390
are
It has been observed to me,
that Governors of Colonies subjected to some inconvenience and uncertainty from the practice which usually prevails respecting the furnishing of Government Houses. That practice, it is believed, is not wholly uniform, but is usually conformable to the Colonial Regulations (Aorts. 268–276), which provide that Poeception Pecoms shall be furnished at the Public expense, but the rest of the House at the expense of the Governor.
will inform
I have to request that
you
me what has been
as
the practice in the Colony under your government in this respect, and I shall be much obliged to you to add such suggestions
calculated to relieve the Governor from any appear to you
venience
may
incon-
to which the present usage may expose him, without of Government property, giving
encouraging extravagance in the use
occasion to dispute between Governors and their Successors, or imposing
any improper expense
On
the Colonial Revenue.
I have the honor to be.
Sir,
Your most obedient
humble Servant,
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