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No. 8.
HONGKONG.
DESPATCH RESPECTING THE SUBMISSION IN FUTURE OF THE MUNICIPAL
TAXATION TO THE LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL.
Presented to the Legislative Council by Command of His Excellency the Governor.
HONGKONG,
No. 71.
SIR,
DOWNING STREET,
26th October, 1885.
I have the honour to acknowledge the receipt of your despatch No. 348. reporting the increase by one per cent of the municipal rating in consequence of the failure of the present police rate to meet the current charges of the force.
2. I approve of the change which you propose to introduce. by which the municipal taxation will in future be submitted to the Colonial Legislature, the rating act of 1875 being amended accordingly; and my approval has already been conveyed to you by telegraph.
3. I have also to acknowledge your despatch No. 349, on the subject of the necessity for maintaining a strong police force in the Colony.
Governor
Sir G. F. BOWEN, G.C.M.G.,
&c.,
&c.
&c.
I have, &c.,
(Signed) FRED. STANLEY.