No. 72

I have the honor to forward an Authenticated and two plain
Copies of an Ordinance of the last session of the Legislature,
entitled,

No. 12. An Ordinance to appropriate the sum of three hundred
and fifty eight thousand nine hundred and twenty three dollars
and five cents out of the General Revenue of the Colony for the
contingent service of the year 1868.

2. I enclose the Report of the Attorney General and also a
minute on the Estimates furnished by the Acting Colonial Secretary.

3. Your Grace will see from the latter paper that I am making
every effort to reduce the public expenditure.