, 1881-08-10

circumstances hence, unless the smaller
sum S9925 be kept within the line, but
the sum of sl2650, being the one based
on a Royal Ordinance, be carried out, no
Rectiication under this item could DO
admitted. Neither the Government
nor the Council can, so far. make
any alteration in The established rule
in that respect, but must keep to the Or.
dinance. He would in this connection
recall to mind, that when the salaries of
the Bookkeeper and Treasurer, which were
originally $4,000, appear in recent budgets
with the remarks attached thereto 'Of
which is calculated will only be used
SlSO0', this is owing to In agreement
between the Government and 1.-The Budget
Committee some years ago, and that
mode of posting has through the Budget
received a certain stability; but the case
is quite different with the item 'the Supe-
rior Local Administration" The present
arrangement is quite temporary, that we all
know before next year we may have a
permanently appointed president with
the salary of $4,000 i'll fact, no one
knows how long this temporary arrange.
ment will last, and how soon we will have
to return to the figures of the Ordinance
of 1st March 1873.
The acting President could agree that the
amounts ixed by laws or ordinances and
the amounts expected to be used should
appear in the Budget, but then uice verSa
the fact of the two items mentioned by
the honorable Chairman, VIZ the Book.
keepers and Treasurers' salaries. being
posted as they are, would seem to warrant
that the same method could be followed
also in this instance. The real amounts
Of salary for those two posts as they are
fixed by Ordinance are kept within the
line hnt thu 90tnp1 N'aCrIC ont la a ia oar.
ried out. In the present instance, even
if the sum total 5l2, 900 fixed by Ordinance
be kept within the line, the Govern
ment can still use it, use the whole. if
necessary, Notwithstanding that only
S9925 are carried out for addition along
with the other actual items of expenditure,
in order 20 avoid a false balance on the
Budget,
The Chairman was sorry he could noe
coincide with His Honour the President.
1t would be remembered that when be
spoke of the way ia which The salaries to the
~Bookkeeper aud Treasurer are posted, he
had said, that was based on an agreement
with the Government and the Budget
Committee aud that that way of entering
the items had received stability by several
years constant practice, the Officials hav-
Ing Tor several years only been allowed tho
$500 p. a. But, here we have no intor-
nation whatever OF how long the present
temporary arrangement with only consti-
tuted, deputed, officials will continue it
might last l month, or 3 months or the
whole financial year. But if we in this
Budget put down only SO ,925 tor the
Superior Local Administration, no more
than that sum can be used, even it q
change or return to the system under the
Ordinance were to take pace shortly ate.
The Chairman Of the Council has tho
duty to see that the Budget is framed in
accordance with tha existing laws and
ordinances an1 he would repeat, that the
Council, just as little as the Presidency
or the Government, eau deviate from the
Ordinance in question,
Tue Acting President would repeat, that
even if the S9,925 were carried out that
would not prevent the Government from
spending, in case OF a nee 'ssity which
might occur durin9 the course OF the
%fnancia! year, the whole sum of $i2,650
1t is, now, in accordance with the GoverH
or's express view hat only the S9925 viii
be required for this fnancial year; there
tore the rectification has been made, but the
Governor has free hands to use the higher
sum, without taking additional Grants,
which the Council has 90 competence to
give.
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