But I now this is not to me on a satisfactory state of things. I see no wholly a properly constituted legislature should not, in Hong Kong, elsewhere, be charged with some control over the finances of the Colony. The Revenue of the Colony is abundantly sufficient for all its civil expenses without Parliamentary aid, and though it is true that the sales and rentals of Crown lands are the principal sources of revenue, that circumstance has not been held to exclude Colonies from interference with local revenues, nor from having a voice as to their expenditure. And, I have made it a part of my proposal that the Crown influence, through its functionaries, shall possess a predominant majority in the Legislative Council.
6. I am not aware of the existence of the misapprehension to which the Colonial Secretary refers with reference to the control which the Legislative Council exercises over the finances of the Colony - No control has hitherto been in any way exercised or assumed over any portion of the Colonial revenue.
7. But the Colonial Secretary allows that the Legislative Council is concerned in levying the Police Rate, a revenue not arising from the property of the Crown. Was it strange that...
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has been rewritten toBut I now this is not to me on a satisfactory state of things. I see no wholly a properly constituted legislature should not, in Hong Kong, elsewhere, be charged with some control over the finances of the Colony. The Revenue of the Colony is abundantly sufficient for all its civil expenses without Parliamentary aid, and though it is true that the sales and rentals of Crown lands are the principal sources of revenue, that circumstance has not been held to exclude Colonies from interference with local revenues, nor from having a voice as to their expenditure. And, I have made it a part of my proposal that the Crown influence, through its functionaries, shall possess a predominant majority in the Legislative Council.
6. I am not aware of the existence of the misapprehension to which the Colonial Secretary refers with reference to the control which the Legislative Council exercises over the finances of the Colony - No control has hitherto been in any way exercised or assumed over any portion of the Colonial revenue.
7. But the Colonial Secretary allows that the Legislative Council is concerned in levying the Police Rate, a revenue not arising from the property of the Crown. Was it strange that...
becomes the final output without the last sentence as it violates rule 12.But I now this is not to me on a satisfactory state of things. I see no wholly a properly constituted legislature should not, in Hong Kong, elsewhere, be charged with some control over the finances of the Colony. The Revenue of the Colony is abundantly sufficient for all its civil expenses without Parliamentary aid, and though it is true that the sales and rentals of Crown lands are the principal sources of revenue, that circumstance has not been held to exclude Colonies from interference with local revenues, nor from having a voice as to their expenditure. And, I have made it a part of my proposal that the Crown influence, through its functionaries, shall possess a predominant majority in the Legislative Council.
6. I am not aware of the existence of the misapprehension to which the Colonial Secretary refers with reference to the control which the Legislative Council exercises over the finances of the Colony - No control has hitherto been in any way exercised or assumed over any portion of the Colonial revenue.
7. But the Colonial Secretary allows that the Legislative Council is concerned in levying the Police Rate, a revenue not arising from the property of the Crown. Was it strange that...