us, and remedies solid and)
many
laid before the sational proposed. But how of the Lessers of Crown Lands, Isen cloon only, and most of these tardity, coming forward to address the Committee, when four the ser 4 - matter of representation
elever the
Lubject=
is simply and truly that
to pay what
that they are disinclined
what they voluntarily
untarily undertook to
pay, and when of all the lots of ground
brought
to notice
by these elevers, one on
only,
(the property of Messrs. Denk #(az), sems
to have
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shadow of
reason
for
the reduction
of its rental, I must be permitted to doubt gravely that the causes of dissatisfaction
have had other than
Aw
imaginary
distempered foundation, and Imuch
equally
be allowed to
infer that that
general dissatisfaction no longer exists.
I take it that the object of our
Committee is mainly the present systems of Land Concre
to ascertain whether
and
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operated to the disadvantage of the commercial relations of the Colony, I assume that
this point of the subject,
in co
condidering
100 have to deal with the question_ Are Chinese traders prevented by the high
of Land Rents from resorting to
rate
Songkong? ___ that nation traders of larger class have not settled among
the
I au
ready
that the
to admit, but
is to be
am
id
any boling be found, partly in the obstacles opposed by the officials of
us
the mainland, and in a degren called for and sanctioned by the XIII th Article of our Supplementary treaty with partly
in the insecurity of the adjacents
China;
waters from piratical depredation; partly
name at one time indiscreetly
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the bad name at
bruited after being groundlessly affixed
to the island and its governme
partly
its government;
in the disinclination
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of the Chinese
to avail themselves of probable benefits,