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£190, 673-12-17, as against £192,464-17-27- in 1869.

Under some heads, as for instance The Mint, and Reimbursements, the decrease is considerable; but the account is balanced by increased receipts for Plamps and Police and Lighting Rates, - which is all

the more.

- satisfactory considering

that the sale of the Mint Machinery

and an allowance

allowance from the special Fund for the construction and maintenance of the "Victoria" and "Blanche" steam vessels gave extraordinary additions to the receipts of 1869.

3.

In

respect to the expenditure Cxpendit

of 1870, there £8713. 10.6, as

Avas a

282

decrease of

compared with that of 1869, the charges of the former year having amounted

to

£ 183,595.11.1/1⁄2, whilst those latter reached £192, 309- 101⁄2.

of the

But for the purchase of Mo Duddell's lots which involved

an

outlay of

£ebeo,

the contrast

would have been still more

favorable to 1870. At the same time, however, the reception of His Royal Highness The Butter

F

Edinburgh and the purchase of Fire Engines in 1869 gave exceptional increase to the expenditure of that year.