to be exempt from the payments of
the Las.
2.
was first brought to my
The question notice in September 1848 by Lieutenant Colonel Simmonds of the Ceylon Rifles
of a House in Town
who being the tenant requested exemption from the Tax on plea that he had an
the his orderly from Regiment for his protection, and that
: he was a Military officer. The Attorney-General having been consulted on the subject, was of opinion that Military officers
were liable to the tax in common with other tenants
occupying Houses out of Military boundaries; the Jay was ... consequently paid, and here I had hoped the question would have ended.
3. In consequence however of this opinion of the law officer of the Government,
the Collector, with my full knowledge and concurrence, proceeded to value certain other Houses, the
property of private Individuals, occupied by the Military, and others two buildings, the property of Messrs Fletcher &c, the one occupied by the Artillery as a store-house, in which Lieutenant Colonel Wyre and some other Artillery Officers also reside, and the other retained by the Commissariat Department: in which Mr Assistant-Commissary Smith with his Family are housed, Commissary Fagan, the first as well as Deputy Assistant
intelligence that reached me of objection of the above officers to pay the tax was by the receipt of Inclosure No. 2 forwarded to me by the General Commanding; there not only deny the right of the local Government to tax private property