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at inconvenience
in
without entailing any very great,
"on the Sax payers?
7.
In connection with this point it is singular that the Colonial Ireasurer himself on the 2nd November 18t's seemed satisfied, as the Commissimus observe, auch the avorsing of the Ordinance.
But it is right to note that the Ordinance in its present form is not that
a which
awas
laid by me before Conneil, and
I am glad to find that it is prononmeed
se for effective,
even as allered
ared by the Corneil.
7.
It would have been
1
effective
had the original draft not been altered,
and it would have obviated
aw
great
which the firesent arrears have reproduced, the ceilection by subordinates from House
to House. This
danger
it was proposed
le remedy by payment at the Treasury.
#
It is familiarly known as "squazing" and would be checked by payment made direct to the Colorial Treasury and into the hands of a higher class of Officers than the itinerant
Collectors. I must on the whole
agree
in
the concluding acords of the Report which point to the insatisfactory ray in which
"It has been acorsted"
10.
On the second head I regret to say that I caimet hesitate to prenoneve that the Colonial Treasurer has not used due
diliquece in collection. Wheter Mr Ford's fault be negligence or mability le serperintend, his Department is a difficult point to decide, but I chinst it