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It will be thus seen that £196,637 1 6½ is all of the expenditure that is fairly chargeable on the ordinary revenue; and when we consider that of this sum £62,103 3 has been expended in public works, it will appear that there has been a surplus of £88,450 11 3½ after defraying the necessary current expenses of the government during that time.

It appears on the same authority that the revenue arising from the sale of crown lands in the Port Phillip district, commonly called the extraordinary revenue, amounted during the same period to £393,911 11 1, and that the expenses incurred for emigration to Port Phillip, and for the passages of clergymen and black protectors, amounted to £204,446 5 0½, leaving a balance in favour of the Port Phillip revenue of 16 189,465 6 0½; but charging against this sum the expenses of the departments of the surveyor-general, and of the aborigines, the account would stand thus:—