objectionable, because it would
impose fresh burdens on the community, and especially on those who have improved their property, in order to relieve purchasers from those which they have voluntarily adopted, because it would cause a reduction in the Revenue, which could not be met by any corresponding reduction of the expenditure, and because it would entail an inquisitive interference with the affairs of the Chinese which could only be carried on through the instrumentality of a venal and corrupt Native Police, and would give rise to great dissatisfaction
objectionable