2.
2..
very important firet laidh
Enactment was
the
before the Legislative Council by Sir George Bonham on 2nd March last, but the subjet it had engaged the attention
of
the Colonial Government
for a long period anterion to that date..
being objectionable as having too much the nature of a Monopoly. Accordingly,
as
reported to the Secretary of State in Sir George Bonham's Despatch 1102 of 18th December 1848, the number was
fixed
at three and there three Licenses being put up
to
public Auction in November 1848, came into the hands
3..
Adinance P2
of
1848
provided
for
the
appointment
of
A an
one only being
4.
of
increased number of
Shant Serangs,
considered sanctioned by
Ardinance 1/3 of 1845, and
the
appointment of this one
one Iuan..
In June 1849 the two leading Mercantile firms
this Colony brought to the
notice of the Governo
now
a
Che