every
desire to meet
their wishes, and to
promote the interests
or really be for "the advantage of the colony":
te that this measure
of the Commu
with I
canush Admich then they
have established any
good ground for the
Reduction
they
Seek
& 44 m. God are of opined t after the large grants which have already been made for Hongkong, I do not think it would be proper under the circumstances to be asked to provide for
it would be fatal to the
objects of
the Settlements WANA
a revenue
Arise by Customs
duties or dues on
shipping,
nor is there
& in wh the residents
the expense of those services to wh the residents in the colony are chiefly interested; if therefore these services are to be reduced it would be necessary that the deficiency in the colonial revenue should be supplied by some new source.
But under
the import mode
any be the other
to occasion
of losing the requisite amount of income which appears to be liable to very little just objection
that of obtaining
it from the occupiers of land the
arrangement of
had a
A
Rent, the amount
of which has been determined by
public
Competition,
to wh
208
and therefore
virtually fixed by the
+
" liable to it have voluntarily subjected themselves, would
be found the most
If for appeal
the first
contestants..
would have been Is at independently of these combat the reasons in support of the arrangement on this subject which was adopted
te
there
pare to sections the
any kind of objection
te the
danger
of acceding
of the
when the settlement was first established, Petitioners would, the effect of now altering that arrangement
I
regist
concise, te highly, anguish
be
to the unsuccessful bidders for the lots, as
well as to the people affected by wh the Petitioners are now in hopes only in consideration of their