the
returned home altogether, or on sick leave, and whose names do not appear in
accompanying document have not. 401 ucaved any Salary since Scame. Shaver consequently unable to deduct the
been coride
arrcard due o ac
account of the tox. In
the Certificate however, tohich they received of the tince up to which their . Salaries have been paid, it is streted & for the information of the Fords of the
of Nad heasury that the
arrears or a
of the tox are
the tax are unrecovered.
account
With regard to Clicks remployed in the Governmorit Offices, I have fremd very great difficulty in complying with the terms of Your Lordship's Despatch :
Of deducted from all Salaries above the
I Sum of £150 a
-year for the past quarter
course the income tax has been
and shall continue to be so in future.
But
Na 2
that
449
But, considering the scale of their salaries has been hitherte barely sufficient for subsistence, and that in the majority of
the inevitable consequence of
these
cases
calling up the
no
arrears would be, that these persons would get into debt, or have to borrow money to meet the demand, which could only be had ow
the most ruinart termis; I have felt it my duty before carrying out this part of the instructions, to represent to Your Lordship the great. public inconvenience that would follow,
they
wwere
they, necessarily acquainted as must be with many subjects, which it is advisable not to have publicly- promulgated, forced to lay themselves under pecuniary obligations to the monied interest in this Colony.
The amount to be received.
by
the heasury from this sance is to
Very