....
from the demands and changes of particular locations
2. be of great importance
to introduce, as early
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practicable, the custom of
Raising
Ratio
the Buildings in any
On
Town
for defraying the charge of Municipal Gov. and Police throughout all their various
detach and subdivisions,
Householder,
confiding to the Householding
as far
as may
be possible,
the power and the obligation
to assess
themselves and
each other, and to expend
that
levied
as it
may
be done
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19 Economy in the Expenditure of the local Revenue, is,
added
a need
of great
importance.
hardly
the utmost
It will be best
promoted by the adoption
of the plan which all
Colonies have borrowed
from the practice of Parliament. That plan, as you
are
Aware,
is before the commencement of each year
to pass in review before the Legislative Council an Estimate of the proposed
Expenditure for the ensuing
year, and then a
statement
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