CO129-184 - Governor Hennessy - 1879 [1-5] — Page 366

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" nut in the Estimates for 1877] but

the Secretary of

State is desirous

of leeing full details of the Estimates

Plans and specifications of this

work before any

I

Hine else is done,

and that is the usual course.

17.

A

regard

the actual

expenditure of the year 1878 as

compared with the estimated

expenditure of that

year

in the

Public Works Department (trat

is on

Road, Streets and Bridges

and on Works and Buildings)

the saving on

the whole

year

amounted to

lef

than $16,000

tre estimate of expenditure was

#

+

? // 2 500 p

Autoct She fur. Atom

77.

29 190

25 076

27

361

$157,670 and the actual expenditure as audited by M. March in the enclosed Return was $142,021.80. It is thus evident that the

18.

large balance. I have in band are not the result of suspending work in the Surveyor General's department. Indeed Mr. Price would be fully justified in saying that the past twenty four months

show more real work in his

department than

any

other two

years in the history of the Colour

19.

With respect to the

statement in paragraph 8 GL

of your despatch that for the

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