ground rent.
exempl
They claim to be
Then the Colonial Revenue
suffers pro tanto
The taxable area
%
the
Colony
is
diminished, which is
for the purposes of the Colony
But they
for the service
J
are
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really stationed there the China Trade, says
Sir J Bowring : and this is his substantial argument. Taking
Are
his view,
the
in reality Endeavouring
War Hep!
to diminish their
own
Estimate, by
Unfair.
The Treasury (and War Department)
is
answer is
from
a
that the objection proceeds
Muistaken
use
7
"Ordnance" and "Colony"
really
shapes
Mean
"the public "
the words
Both
in different
For the "Ordnance" to pay
ground rent to the "Colony "
merely for
is
one pocket to pay
ground rent to the other
own
part
I should for my certainly take the latter view,
the troops
f
some stationed at Hong Kong
taking
a
revenue
from the Colony for
purpose which is not Colonial.
General Straubenzee however replies,
that the Military
Colonial purposes
are
there for
to protect the
Europeans from the Chinese
I have stated the arguments
pro
& Con
on
a
question
which I
feel to be of difficulty, though
one