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J.H. I have been quite unable to find
any date afsigned for payment of the Mulitury bontubution of each year
The Auditor
General
mov
has
been more
farternate.
It would seem, therefore, that the Ebulicamending
vates being
Annual the payment
question is strictly
though for quanterly,
in
an annual liability, / I tande
convenience it
and
rience it is made
I incline to think that
• no legal claim to interest could arise
if it was a
till
question between finiate individuals
expiration of the year's
on account
of which, respectively, any payments might
It due.
be left 12. Having
menced I presume
it
is better that I should now continue the
payments for this
year, unless
otherwise
for so asing
instructed on till the means
an
ind
fail.
Thus
mmple time well be
afforded
to readjust the interest account in the
more simple facting which I propose. According to that plan interest began to
from the 1st January 18k
ww
east
on the
£5000 due for the quarter of 1866. There
were twelve months interest
a ₤200:
due on the sume account on the 10th of
the 1st
of
last
January (1868) and on
January 1869 there will be due interest
om
£25,200 and po
on ao
مت
long as
arrears remain, unsettled. It seems
to
me
that such an
anangement has at least the merit of simplicity.
18. I notice that the attention of Your
Grace and of the Lords bommifsioners of Her Majesty's Treasury has been
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