(1) Camaltes es. penision to mediis f an offices
like.
(2) Field Allowance to hoops
(3) Batta" allowance to native phowers (4 Exta rations for hoops.
(3) & (24) an not my probable sources of expense.
the
The position is that a garrison is maintained in It kong for Imperial and local purposes; & the Colony pays 20% (resence towards the cost. To my mind it is unreasonable that when troops
employed for the safety 1 Colony the fact of their pulfiting the one of the functions for which they are stationed tire and cause extra expense to the Colony, In thes, from the legal new I doubt it any change it be enforced, for $5 the Defence Cartribution Adriance 1901 Snacks that the percentage shall be deemed to be ' a fixed conturbution payable by the Colony
'
' in full rettern for the annual cost of the "Pumphriel gavison including all capital
and all other military
expenditure
J
charges the toorne "
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The wording & the section is my wide: legally
I think the Colony et refare altogether to pay anything.
Our experience & the Shylocks of the was office has
not been so happy that we reed be ready to
but the Gov. Les to some extent
meet them
pejadiced his can
by offering to pay such expenses of the expedition as maghe thought proper : & to W.O. Lave, more sno, seiged on this as a basis for demanding spryment of
all extra expenditure.
Ist? he inclined, an the whole, to
IND
that the S. ft.
: Reply quoting the Dinance does not think that strictly the Colony was pay any portion of the extra expenditure; but that he will ascertain tehor's news:
sent W.O. a copy com
tl on Adme Tbhig
to show that we have told thong about the Indiin hoops.
? Write & It Kong in the sense four hitter to L.D. (without sending corse) wony
that
something
in view ( Sus 7 st. May's offer to pay some
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