"While great efforts were made to restore. political peace, which is essentia} to trade and the financial Prosperity of the Colony, a close watch was kept on expenditure to avoid any further enerouehment on the Colony's surplus balances. and the strictest, economy was enforced so far as. it did not involve the loss of efficiency. There is in the Draft Appropriation Account a list of public works which have not been carried out but they ure not the Urgent ones and can wait for better times. This list does. not, in any way moan that this hard-worked Department has been idles import ant work continually appears neces-sitaring rearrangement, and the final saving. on public works ext ordinary was $799,878 on a total appropriation of $9/706,264.
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