CO129-220 - Governor Sir Bowen - 1885 [1-3] — Page 104

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your recollection that the latter was voted

in

full, white in respect of the former only

half, viz: $46,550 was voted

one ha

voted oving

to

the financial year of 1889 being already es for advanced as to make it impossible to expend the whole within the prescribed

live.

مجھے

On making up the accomets,

however, at the close of 1883,

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simply inverted for general

of $100,000 was simply

sanitary requirements and without going into details, the intention being to supploung this seen when required from ordinary

by way of an advance to be mon eventually refineded to the Treasury from the proceeds of the Public Works Cau

revenue.

evon as the latter had been raised.

it was

found

5.

that of this half (viz-$46,550) only

$23,406

of the vole had actua

actually been

ite of

afreut, so that a balance of $23,143 had lapsed to the Colonial Treasury, while the second grant of $113,158 mnly $8,0 tett were expended leaving a balance to the treasury of $35,093. These two weexpended balances amounted to $58, 236.

4.

In the preparation of the estimate for the ensuing year (18876), a round sum

The Sanitary

work which

have been carried out, and are

being

carried out under the current year's vote of $100,000, are given in the enclosure

marked 3, and when there works

arc

completed there will be no balance :left for further sanitary improvement should the Government decide to continue

in the path of Sanitary reforce m initiated by His Excellency

6.

In your financial statement to

the

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