AL matter that I should send you Suport, - Copy of their Permit, but as I do not concur in its more important suggestions, - contemplate making them the groundwork of Legislation, I shall not forward the documents which accompany the Report, unless I should learn directly that the general views of the Commissioners meet with your approval.
The proposal of making the Military Corps in the Colony the principal instruments for a new Police free of furnishing ... will be submitted to the Secretary at War for his previous caution. I do not agree with the Commission that the Inhabitants of the Colony ought to pay only one third of the expense of Police employed for their protection.
The Police (amounting now to about £20,000 per Annum) is the only real contribution of the Colony to the share of taxes to the public expenses, and far from being of opinion that the Community ought to be relieved of a portion of this contribution, I think it hard and unfair that Colonial ...
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