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which is the right
important principle which is
of the Legislature to imprese
a.
on a Governor Governor
heavy additional tax without his
consent.
b.
I have already stated that the attered mode of lighting is inefficient. and disagreeable - but I have não to add that like most things in this Colony it is extremely expensive. The Bile presented by the Gas Company for last month's consumption of gas amounted to # 162.97, or a rate exceeding
£400 per
T
annum.
As I
am still obliged to pay
for lamp Coelies and to find oil and
Candles
for many
burners- so much
so that on a late occasion I saw 14 oil
burners in use in
my dining room in
addition to the right
burners
gas
intended to light the apartment_
I cannot compinte the expense throws
on me
for lighting the Home of
than £ 500 per
lefs
annun - an amunt.
absurdly disproportioned to my income, which is scarcely adequate to
the whole
of
meet the rest of my expenditure.
I therefore sought to get back to
8.
the old system- but as
you
will
perceive from the enclosed reply by the Survey or General to my
it is now
my Memo.
impossible to restore the