With regard to the objection that the Community is unable to bear further taxation, I would observe, that in several dispatches addressed to the Colonial Office for the Colonies it has been stated that the residents find the Colony singularly profitable, and "are but lightly taxed - the police & Lighting rates with a water rate in prospect are taxes to which the population are subjected".
That the population has doubled in four years, that public works have been executed from Current Revenue as the Surplus Revenue "rapidly" increased; that "the Revenue is chiefly derived from the Chinese who constitute 98 percent of the population & justly contribute nearly a similar proportion of the Revenue"; that they have made the Colony "the centre of a large Trade, and local Coasting Trade" at the deport at...
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