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extraordinarily large number of members ; and other 

 persons well versed in colonial institutions, have 

 expressed their conviction that such a cumbrous 

 machinery is quite out of proportion to the limits 

 and requirements of the colony. 



In the following table will be seen the cost entailed 

 on the country for six years' pay to members of the 

 House of Assembly. For facility of calculation, we 

 give the amount in dollars, as they are commonly 

 understood in Bermuda: — 



813,716 



From the above statement it appears that in six 

 years the House of Assembly cost the country, for 

 members' salaries only, 13,716 dollars; but this is 

 very far from the actual expense of six years' legisla- 

 tion. The allowance to the Legislative Council, which 

 amounts on an average to nearly one-fourth of that of 

 the Assembly, the pay of officers of the two Houses, 

 and other occasional charges, such as law expenses, 

 will double this amount. The gross expense there- 



