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sheum the amount due to and remitted

ito the Imperial Goverment. In 1866. the

total

receipts it is true

were

$163,892 but

from that sum has to be deducted

$109.589. charged to the bolony- instead of only $2820. which

Lincurred on

The

difference

was the expense

the same account. in 1863.

between those sums or

$106,369- must be deducted from $163,892 part of the Testage Revenue

lentered as

of

of

1866. to ascertain the amount actually

Lavailable

Revenue.

That alone is a

18.

very great

deduction.

but

is

not

by

any

means

the

only

-ame

than if the profit, in great pant incaginares of the Mintos $10,490. is to be accounted an increase of the Revenue so as

to

invite the imposition of further expense

on the bolony

we cannot

get

at the

real available amount with which the

bolony and

have put

Your Grace

can deal till

we

ow

the other side of the account the cast at which that profit

of $10,490 has been purchased- a cast not lefs than $50,000. exclusive of interest

$300,000 of capital sunk. Therefore to arrive at what I presume

presume is the only

oliject of Your Graces inquiry- reiz the

available oi

Ordinary

revenue we

must

རྔབ་མལ་པ་དངཅ་ཟུ་ཅན་རྣམ་ཁང་

deduct the difference between the profit by the Maint during and lofs caused by the Maint

1866 which

may fairly be put down at

about $40,000.

Nor is this all,

because in the

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