Colonies. Return to an address of the Honourable the House of Commons, dated 26 August 1846;--for, a "return, in a tabular form, for the last year in which they can be made up, of the gross revenues, under their different heads, of each of Her Majesty's colonies, exhibiting the costs of collection, and any deductions made in their progress to the public treasury." "Similar return of the disbursements of each colony under their separate heads, showing the authority on which such disbursements are made." "Returns, showing which colonies have representative assemblies, and which not, and by whom the executive is nominated, and of what number of members it consists; and, also, whether and in what cases the members of the executive have seats or votes in the legislature." "Of the colonies which have adopted the resolutions of the House of Commons for the return of the colonial accounts." [electronic resource].