in support of my
opinion that I am prepared to undertake the
responsibility of maintaining law and order in the
Colony without Troops
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if Her Majesty's Government should think it unnecessary to retain them for any other object. And I go further and assert more confidently that it would unquestionably be to the advantage of the Colony that they should
be withdrawn rather than that any such contribution as
that fixed by the Duke of
Newcastle should be
Enforced.
His Grace proposes that the
Colony
should pay
in aid of the
Maintenance of 1000 men in total idleness as far
The
Colony
is concerned, a
sum equal to £20,000 per
annum, to be raised to a
higher
rate on a
future occasion.
Even withdrawn, and
suffering when
local forces were
found
insufficient