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Thursday, September 14th, 1854. No. 20 —Motion made and question put—That the sum of £1300 be appropriated to defray the Salaries and Contingencies of the Post Office Department at Auckland. Committee divided. Ayes—lB. Noes—7. Messrs. Taylor Messrs. Bacot Crompton Fitzgerald King Featherston Picard Rhodes Gledhill Hart Mackay Kelham Greenwood Revans (teller). Brown Travers Wakefield Gray E. J. Wakefield Macandrew Lee Ludlam Cutten F orsaith O'Neill (teller). No. 21—Motion made and question put—That £150 be placed upon the Estimates, as the Salary of the Clerk to the Colonial Treasurer.—(Mr. Wakefield.) Committee divided. Ayes—9. Noes—l 2. Messrs. Mackay Messrs. Crompton Bacot Moorhouse Fitzgerald Ludlam Travers Taylor ~\\ akefield Featherston L. J. akefield Picard Port er Revans Macandrew Carleton Forsaitli (teller.) Hart Gray Kelham O'Neill (teller). No. 22 —Appkophiation Bile. Clause 1 Out of the said Duties of Customs, and out of the Revenue arising from the disposal of the Vk aste Lands of the Crown, after and subject to the payments to be made under the provisions of the said recited Act there may be issued, and applied, in manner, and as hereinafter particularly mentioned any sum or sums of money not exceeding fortyeight thousand five hundred and ninety pounds eighteen shillings and eight pence, to defray the Salaries Allowances and Contingencies of the Civil Establishments of the General Government of New Zealand unprovided for by the said recited Act, for the period commencing on the Ist day of July, 1854, and ending on the 30th day of June, 1855.—Read. Motion made and question put—That the words "Duties of Customs, and out of the" in (MrFtizgerald™ * t0 mSert " Her Ma jesty's Ordinary" in lieu thereof.— Committee divided.