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is my opinion quite sufficient if the Estimates are sent home from Angring

by the first week in September, they trave frequently been sent much later, but then there was not sufficient time to examine them carefully.

it is extremely difficult to make Reverne before any reliable Estimates

of

Siz

the actual recripts of the first months of être have been accertaines, and

year Estrovinates of Expenîiture have to be shaped in accordance with the amount of Reverne etrai is expected to be collects. Jake

example the Estrinates for

as an ex.

the present year, which were

prepared

in time to be lair before the fancil

in dame last. It was

form's necessary

in December last to reîuce itu hatimates

of

Revenue by $99, 188. The estimates of hxpenditure has to be altered accoringly

to

563

to meet this reduction and the

alterations mate wen very ansiderable

new itens to the extent of $22,780, having been added, whilst reînctions to the extent of $82,900, were effected. The

consequence is that the Estimates sent home in July, 1884, and which have been approved by the heretary of State are no longer the Estimates by which the Expenditure is guided. The revised appropriation Orfinance

· forwarded for tu approal of

of the Secretary of State on the 6th January

wdo

last, and the approval has not

received.

^

yet

et bee

It would be

for

mispossible to wait

of the

of

itre confirmation

appropriation Crimmance when the Estrinates are sent so late, as the first three months of be year, when the weather is dry and fit for buitoring

operacines