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expected there would be due $167,633. 30 but under the latter the amount will be

$297, 884. 15. The difference $129,701. 35 is

$297,334.

: therefore the expenditine opread over twe

If

years

and a

now callo on

quarter which Your Lordship,

the looking

to make

good.

ال

therefore consider it creditable to the local Govenment here that even so large demand seed denly made will not emlavajo the bolony inetrievally, though from the

commencement of

now more

of my

administration.

than 3/2 years

back it has

an Insolvent

bech stinggling to emerge from condition and has at last righted itself by honestly increasing its local taxation, and economising its means - whilst for that independent position it is not is

1

indebted to the aid

the Special Fund.

551

of

a cent from

16. Therefore, if any part of the latter Fund is allowed to be touched and

if the principle of using it at all be

I do not understand how

conceded,

pressing

there can be any me creparty for calling on any necefity

the Colony suddenly to repay a portion of that fund whose expenditive had been spread

over so lengthened a period,

and incurred under a

more on

misapprehension lef_excusable. I therefore avail

Wire & I t for myself of Your Lordship's pennipion to

بهره

165. 22 nov. 1869.

744

نقله سند

a reconsideration of the instructions

965 x 69; in question,

I made

Such

and

suggest that they

prospective only

an

be

and not retro fective.

Act would more

gracianoly ?