Show ANSWER ENGLAND russia appropriates coubles roubles czar sends an imperial note tha minister of finance setting aside that amount of money for war purposes out of the war clesi the empire st petersburg march 10 an imperial ukase just issued orders for the 0 coubles roubles as extraordinary tra ordinary expenditure for the construction st of warships ith added that no loan will be to provide the money in an imperial to themi of finance J devitto accompanying the ukase the czar bays in considering the probability of assigning large a sum at one out reference to a loan I 1 am induced to point cut that the disbursement contemplated tem plated baa been conceded by very considerable payments from nn collected cash in the treasury for other items of extraordinary expenditures during your administration the ordinary receipts have exceeded the ordinary expenditure by more than coubles roubles rou bles consequently the greater part of the extraordinary expenditure pend iture is covered without an appeal to the imperial credit this expenditure including the great siberian and other railways as weli as the payment of a considerable portion 0 the crown debt hi the imperial bank for the conversion of the credit notes in accordance with the currency reform after the above expenditure pend iture of the uncollected funds of the treasury amounted up to january lt to coubles roubles rou bles of which coubles roubles are needed for extraordinary tra expenditures therefore there remains sufficient to cover the aforesaid expenditure for naval con Bt ruction this stae of affairs convinces me you follow both the instructions of cay father in god and mine regarding the observance of the in the financial administration of the empire i while to ex arcise economy in the future for the complete preservation of the equilibrium of the budget in which lie the props of the power and well being of the empire I 1 remain your unalterably well disposed and grateful NICHOLAS in official calculations according to the year book coubles roubles are considered equivalent to the british pound sterling |