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it would not be the policy of the Government
to adopt this course,
proprietors
themselves
but rather to be
stated to public competition, derive from it
this about £100, about
year than the last. For the future
A
small revenue;
of the Market, and to
100 per cent
this it will depend upon
what parties consider
rent out the Stalls at reasonable fixed rates-
Serangs. It seems desirable that
the Lazears who land here from be looked after, and on the same
taken care
vessels should
of humanity- of, until again shipped, the appointments of a responsible person- to attend
It relieves also the Harbour
to
this
is proper. Master of much trouble under whose department
it would fall, and the Government of the
that would necessarily be occasioned.
expence
To the person undertaking this business, the right of shipping these Lasears is confined, and it is supposed that he obtains from
them, for his remuneration, a certain proportion of
their
wages.
By this
system
Government as already
stated, save considerable expence and troubling,
but they also by putting up the privilege before
can be squeezed out of these poor Lazears
that the successful
It stands to reason
bidder must enter
this
money
in
one way
or
other from these men, and in order to make sure that he be no loser, to a much greater extent than the amount he has to pay to Government.
It cannot be the intention of Government to
t
way
of
and
make the protection which these men claim of the Government the occasion rather injury and
and oppression than an advantage benefit to them. I should think that a judicious selection of one of the applicants for
"the
appointment, giving a deposit of money as adequate security for his complying with the conditions that Government may lay down, would be sufficient
I think that if this settlement had...
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