CO129-194 - Governor Hennessy Administrator Tonnochy - 1881 [8-9] — Page 269

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this is a

· large

sum

to

expect, I

believe the result will continue to m

justify his careful calculations.

9.

The total expenditure

for 1882, sanctioned by the Appropriation Ordinance and by the bivil List

amounts to #1,051, 614, leaving a surplus on the estimated transactions of the

year of $80,246, and a balance to the credit of the Colony on the 31st of December 1882 of $489,078.

10.

On the total of the

Establishment charges there is an

increase

accounted

of #17.561. This is partly

for by

additions to the

Estimates for which I have

which I have already

obtained Your Lordship's sanction,

such

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such as the augmentation of the salaries of the Clerks in the Volice Department,

• and the personal allowance to M. Lister, the Nostmaster General. My~ despatch No 120 of the 30th July, 1881, on the Offices of the Supreme Court_ deals with the seale of salaries which the Legislature has now sanctioned. Your Lordship will be addressed in a Iseparate despatch

on some other items

in these Estimated including the cost

of the

new

department of the Government

Marine Surveyor under the Merchant Shipping Ordinance.

11.

I have been able, with

the assistance of the Legislative Conneil, to ast, without delay, on Your Lordships,

suggestion