revenues which should be
say 23,500
employed for public works, roads, and sanitation improvements should to the extent of ... be taken to make up the Deficiency between the expenditure
for
the
police and the special rate raised
toward defraying that expenditure.
The Inhabitants
of
the Colony may
in my judgment fairly be called upon for contributions sufficient to cover the expenses of local protection.
The proposal to tax
Commerce by imposing a
Harbour duty on
Tonnage of
Shipping is altogether in discordance
with
my policy and my opinions. The Machinery for its collection
would
have to be provided at a considerable
cost and I should deem the imposition of Taxes upon shipping
as a fatal step toward the overthrow of that Free Trade to which the Colony is mainly indebted for its prosperity and its future prospects - and considering the peculiar character of the Island Population where Commerce is carried on in every species of Craft from the meanest boat to Ships of enormous tonnage,
I feel that the Collection of revenue on vessels entering
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