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authorized Public Works with the Surveyor General, it has however not

found possible to effect a larger reduction than $71,225-

of

the details

which are

are shown

in the annexed list. All the

other Public Works had been

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either partially completed Government was bound by engagements with contractors from which it could not

withdraw. I addressed a Circular

to beads of Departments asking what retrenchments could be

effected

deventy one thous -two pundred and twenty five

Enclosure 2.

One million ine

effected by them. But, in consequence of the late period of the year,

reductions that are

Are

practicable

seareely worth taking into

the

account. A second revised

estimate of expenditure taking into consideration the reductions

proposed by the Surveyor General

and based on the actual expenditure of seven months,

dred right amounts to $1,183,600,

three thousand six hundred.

and I

regret to possible

say

that I see.

no

meand

of effecting any

further retrenchment. This will

leave