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-ordinary expenser of Government.

46.

The

stoppage of useful Public

Works such as supplying the town with water dramage-making of roads and supplying adequate Hospital accommodation. aided by fortimate Land sule have put the Government in a position to meet the most urgent demands but the arrears of the

ome

Military Contribution since the 12t

last

Septemby remain

of

unpaid, Mare

recently the destruction caused

by

Typhoons of the great Public work of

the Sea Wall which

the bity vizi protects the Praya

of

the

in main

thoroughfare

harbor and on

beity along the harbor

the strength of which

of which depends the pecunity

of the fine range of buildings extending miles along the Traya has

the Praya has completely

disabled the bolemy, if

held liable to

for

it's restoration, from meeting the liabilities imposed by Her Majesty's Government-

it is disabled from meeting

that is to

say

i

them if it attempts to discharge the

ordinary duties of a

Community

47.

In

of a Government to the

of

the 14th

my despatch N. 361 ultimo I had the honor to furnish

Your Grace with comincing proofs that

the

permanent ordinary beolony has certainly

revenue

of the

not increased for

...

years, and that although it had

several

apparently

risen hom

$1200

120,000 in 1863.

far

to £160,000 in 1866. the increase so