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venue of the Port Phillip district for 1844 is estimated by Mr. Latrobe at £83,390, which estimate is adopted by the governor; while the probable expenses of the civil, judicial, and other establishments were estimated as follows:

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1. * There has been no document published on authority showing the sums disallowed; so that as to this point I had to depend on the reports of the proceedings of the council, published in the newspapers. They will be found, however, pretty correct, at any rate quite enough so for the present purpose. I cannot account for the omission of the last two items in the estimate; nor Is any provision made for the protectorate or missions. It is, however, probable that these will be discontinued.
2. † It is a mystery to me how the mounted police, consisting of eighteen soldiers,