the additions to the tenements made in the
cours £
of 2urs last twelvemonth's offer a subject
of taxation which
be expected to yield.
something considerable. A valuation is now
in progress, and when the whole is completed,
I shall be able to inform Your Lordship of
ぜひ
prospects from this source of revenue :
The Police being paid by the
Government, it seemed necessary
in this
instance to adopt the mode of assessment: In the case however of Proces and Seurage, it is
proposed, as soon as the work's first called for
shall have been completed, to throw the repairs or improvements of the future entirely into the hands of local Commissioners, who will be invested by Ordinance with the
responsibility of the entire mand
of these
the n.
arj
agement matters, and with authority to levy
•
nicessory
by funds to meet the Expenditure. The lighting of the Town has alwa
always
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from the first, been made compulsory on the
inhabitants.
as a measure of Police, each house
contributing its share to the general lighting.
On
account of some doubts
entertained by the Attorney-General, as to the strictly constitutional character of the species
of Capitation Tax contemplated by the Registration,
--
the measure was suspended in November last; but on the receipt of Your Lordship's
instructions in return, I shall be quite
prepared to resort to it, should any authority be given to that effect, as I find that it is not disapproved in the Despatch
under reply- The Opium farm has been sold for about £2,000 during the first year,
but I
consider this as quite trifling, compared with what it may be expected to victo when the system has been fairly established, and when its profitableness has become apparent from
experience.
The
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