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the 31st of December 1863
preparation whatever had been made towards the collection of the Rates for
the first quarter of 1864.
It does not seem to have occurred
to the Colonial Preasurer,
new, as the head
of
the Department responsible for the dus collection of the Rates, to drave the attention
of this Excellency The Governor to the
circumstance that mutil etre rate
of
assessment had been fixed, under Section
X11 the
Treasury would not be in
prosition to fill up the notices for the first-quarter of 18611- although they might have been printed in blaust.
Everything themefore remained at a
stand still as
respects the Rates for 1862,
as ri