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1850, this subject was brought to the notice of the Secretary of State, but I am unable to find a reply to that communication.
The altered circumstances to which I allude in my letter to are these:
General Shaubenzer In the case reported by Sir G. Gonham the "the main argument by the Military Officers was that the Colony being supported from the Imperial Treasury, to take a tax from them was merely to pay the money out of one pocket, into the other".
"The Colony now supports itself, and I must see that its resources are in no way handicapped; the Colonial Revenue has already suffered by the acquisition of land property by the War Department, and it should be borne in mind that at the original settlement of Hongkong the Military Authorities were allowed as much space as they represented themselves to want.
I cannot see why, if Military are to be exempt from local Rates when they occupy large houses outside the Cantonments and merely as Temporary residences, the equally ...