CO129-132 - Sir MacDonnell - 1868 [8-9] — Page 600

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to enforce full payment of

the Military Contribution

the

anearo

of

and when the

revenue unavoidable from liansing faming

houses

was

locked up pending a

a decision

as to its application, revised Estimates

transmitted to Your Grace

in

wvere

my despatch

No 361 of the M4 September last

year

361

starting $131,400 off the expenditure preciously 107/10/17.

proposed for the cument

year and including

in that retrenchment the sum put down.

for the site of

a New

Called revised Estimates

original

Headpital. These so

were

merely the

Estimates with certain items struck

out with red ink. The appropriation Ordinance remained unaltered, as your Graces instructions to

want of

means

wvere

myself.

as well as

quite sufficient to

preclude the posibility of any expenditure

under that Ordinance which

was

included in those revised Estimates.

5.

not

Cut that time as I did not know

A

what extension might be required for the

Lock

Hospital,

I was reluctant to abandon

the plan of erecting a new Civil Hospital

and giving up it's site to the purposes of the fanner. a necepity of which, swing

to the

sveces of the new Crainance for prevention of bontagious Diseases, I have

mo

longer any apprehension.

6. I however at the time held the opinion of the Committee above referred to, and did not without further advice hom Your Space think it expedient to abandon the notice of resumption given

W

August

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