in some
on
Community, and, in fact, measure, to throw the responsibility the inhabitants or their representatives, and thereby to obviate the unmerited
abuse that is very frequently heaped on a Police Magistrate and his Departments in the Colonies, - I determined to bring the subject again to the consideration of the Justices, and in the hope of inducing them to undertake this duty, proposed to grant
to them for in addition to the Proceeds
tur
years,
of the Police Say amounting, after deducting the expense of collection and contingencies, to £3504.10.7%, a
of £1051.19.21.
other
ther sulle
further
per
desire it, to
pase
all
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Ordinance for the
pimpores of taxing Horses, carriages, and "Chairs (Sedans), which latter
are
in
common use in the Colony :- in short, I proposed to place at their disporal_
the
the same means
had
during
the
that I
I myself have
this
past year for
the sole conservancy
Service, as well as
of the City of Victoria. This proposal Your Lordship with observe, again refuse to accept.
they
Mow
5. I trust it will appear, My
Lord,
from
the enclosed correspondence
that I have now done all in my power
MAMMAM M-
to
carry
inte
effect
out of the general fund of the Colony,
Sberides
paying
dircetly from the Freneury
the Salaries of the Superintendent
of
Police, and his Assistant, aggregating £812 ._ I ales offered, should they
the
rerumendation
of the Parliamentary Committee; but I
confecr I begin to think that the majority of the Justices have neither
time
nor melination
for
the duty
Some of the Gentlemen composing the
local