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defray the charges of the gear 1870.

Jobserve that in the

Completed accounts for that

Year

the surplus of Resmere

Revenue

per lapenditure is partly.

Aue it to the Interest in the

Special Fund account Sand Hong included in the Ordinery Nevenue, which the Auditor

General

remarks will have

"Aibe transferred to that

Account; it would have

been more regular, if the Amount in greation had not been credited & Revenue at

all.

I thould wish have to request further explanation as to the statement, made by the Audits General in his memorandum on the Revenue, that the decrease

Under the heading "Have lands? " was caused by the houpagnent of rent by Mr Sharp : this Gentleman is now indebted_ in the sum of $16000 for arrears of rent?

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I have to instinct you

that for the future thank the

boles for the salaries and

allowances of Pact . Isprestane. and for Services exclusion of Establishments should be

Specified separately in all_ Houphing Appropriation Ordinances; this instruction

is not meant to interfere with the improvements you introduced in the arranftulat of the Eltemates by which the expenses of the strice

of the each Department were brought immediately in con-

-pretion with the salaries of its Establishment, but