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3. MAJOR GREENWOOD—To move, that this House fully recognising the principle of equal religious liberty, is of opinion that any sum which may be provided for educational purposes on the Civil List should be fairly apportioned among the various Religious Bodies with whom a contract for such aid has been made by the General Government. 4. MAJOR GREENWOOD—To move, that His Excellency the Governor be requested to place the sum of £100 on the Supplementary Estimates, for the purpose of affording medical assistance to the Natives at the Bay of Islands. 5. MAJOR GREENWOOD—To move, that His Excellency the Governor be requested to place the sum of I6OZ. on the Supplementary Estimates, for the salary «f an Interpreter on the Establishment of the Land Purchase' Department. 6. MAJOR GREENWOOD—-To move, that His Excellency the Governor be rtquested to place the sum of 5001, on the Supplementary Estimates for the purchase of furniture, in lieu of that destroyed by fire in the latg Government House. MR. 1 RAVERS 1o move for leave to bring in a Bill to appoint an agent in England to take certain steps for relieving the Colony of New Zealand from the New Zealand Company's Debt. 8. MR. SEWELL—To move the following Resolutions, —■ lhat in providing supplies for the public service for the current year, this House has proceeded without having had before it the detailed particulars of the proposed expenditure of the civil list, and of the cost of collecting and, management of the Customs and the Land Revenue, nor has it been furnished with complete detailed particulars of the expenditure of last year on those services. lhat this House attributes the omission of the Government to supply such particulars, to unavoidable circumstances, but nevertheless it feels itself bound to record its protest against such omission being drawn into precedent. That in the opinion of this House the public expenditure of the Colony is on a scale too large in proportion to its revenues. And this House earnestly trusts that his Excellency the nsw Governor, amongst the first acts of his Government, will institute a searching enquiry into such expenditure with a view to its retrenchment. That although this House has voted supplies for the service of the full period of a year, yet looking to the financial state of the colony, and particularly to outstanding liabilities, for which it appears that no provision has been or is being made, this House considers it indispensably necessary that a new Session of the Assembly should be held at the earliest possible period after the intended dissolution. That this House reitirates its opinion that the cost of the Surveying Department does not foim part of the cost of collection and management of the Land Revenue, and that this Department of the public service ought as far as possible to be placed under the control of the respective Provincial Governments. 3. MR. TRAVERS—To move that pending a final adjustment of the public accounts of the Colony, it is just and expedient that the proportion of the Land Fund now in course of being retained by the General Government, in repayment of alleged over-payments to the Provinces of Canterbury and Nelson, should again be paid over to the Provincial Treasurers of those Provinces for the public uses thereof, according to the present system of advances to Provinces, and that the question of the repayment of such alleged overpayments should remain open until such final adjustment, and be subject to such arrangements for liquidation as may then be deemed necessary. That a respectful Address be presented to his Excellency the Governor, praying that instructions may be issued to the proper officers to carry out the foregoing resolution. 4. MR. TRAVERS'—To move that whilst this House has agreed to make provision for certain services mentioned in the Supplementary Estimates for the financial year ending 30th June, 1855, it desires to record its opinion that the practice of exceeding the Appropriation made by the House, except in cases of great and unavoidable urgency, is extremely injudicious, and is calculated to iutroduce serious confusion and derangement in the financial system of the Colony.