CO129-139 - Sir MacDonnell - 1869 [8-12] — Page 224

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enclosed Estimates incompatible with objects more important than mere clearness of accounts, I hope Your Lordship will be induced to obtain a modification of any instruction likely to deprive Members of Council and others of those facilities for comprehending and referring to all details of the Public Expenditure, which the enclosed reformed Estimates appear to afford.

7. If I were not apprehensive of being thought urgent, and perhaps even premature—notwithstanding the long years during which Her Majesty's Governors and Civil Officers, at least in all Crown Colonies, have been obliged to feel their way darkly and with hesitation through the voluminous details of the Annual Estimates in the old form, I would even urge on Your Lordship the expediency of enforcing, wherever Her Majesty's Government has power to do so, a similar form for all Colonial Estimates, by which I merely mean a form similar in the simple principle aimed at, though the application of that principle by others would no doubt soon lead to still greater improvements.

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8 220 9. enclosed Estimates incompatible with objects more important than mere clearness of accounts, I hope Your Lordship will be induced to obtain a modification of any instruction likely to deprive Members of Council and others of those facilities for comprehending and referring to all details of the Public Expenditure, which the enclosed reformed Estimates appear to afford. 7. If I were not apprehensive of being thought urgent, and perhaps even premature—notwithstanding the long years during which Her Majesty's Governors and Civil Officers, at least in all Crown Colonies, have been obliged to feel their way darkly and with hesitation through the voluminous details of the Annual Estimates in the old form, I would even urge on Your Lordship the expediency of enforcing, wherever Her Majesty's Government has power to do so, a similar form for all Colonial Estimates, by which I merely mean a form similar in the simple principle aimed at, though the application of that principle by others would no doubt soon lead to still greater improvements.

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8 220 9. enclosed Estimates incompatible with objects more important than mere clearness of accounts, I hope Your Lordship will be induced to obtain a modification of any instruction likely to deprive Members of Council and others of those facilities for comprehending and referring to all details of the Public Expenditure, which the enclosed reformed Stimates affear to afford. 7. If I were not affrehensive urgent, and of being thought tor perhaps even fremature-- notwithstanding the long years during which ber Majesty's Governors and Civil Officers, at least in all Crown Colonies have been obliged to feel their way darkly and with hesitation shrough the fromisenous details of the Annual Estimates in the old form. I would even urge on your Lordship the expediency of enforcing, wherever ber Majestyp Government has hower to do so, a similar form of all Colonial Sitimates, by which I merely intens a form similar in the simple frinciple aimed at, though the application of that frinciple by others would no doubt soon had to still greater improvements. }

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affear to afford.

7. If I were not affrehensive

urgent, and

of being thought tor perhaps even fremature-- notwithstanding the long years during which ber Majesty's Governors

and Civil Officers, at least in all Crown Colonies have been obliged to feel their

way darkly and with hesitation shrough the fromisenous details of the Annual Estimates in the old form. I would even urge on your Lordship the expediency of enforcing, wherever ber Majestyp Government has hower to do so, a similar form of all Colonial Sitimates, by which I merely intens a form similar in the simple frinciple aimed at, though the application of that frinciple by others would no doubt soon had to still greater improvements.

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