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the constitution of the Police force itself,
proportion
as the town has extended
and the population increased have all led to
corresponding to the
(viz $130,000) and that raised in 1866
(viz: $204,000),
in the total
from
or in other words
ordinary Revenue
1866, so as to institute fairly comparison which Your Grace
an
increase
of those rates
requirements of
of the
city.
St
would, however, not suit the
to draw.
22.
have to be
made
on
account
object with which Your Grace compares the theme
the
of 1863 and 1866 to treat
augmentation of the Police, Lighting
and Water Rates in the latter
year,
as really placing any disposable Revenue
My
under the control of this
Government for any general purpose outside the object for which the rate is
imposed.
It will be
necessary therefore to deduct
the difference
between the annual amount
raised for the above objects
in 1863
and
$14,000
of
the
A similar deduction would
be made for the
increasing expenditure for Pensions, but
the difference in the two
years
was
very great, and I pass it by. The inevitable deductions however already
made, as
large
above, amount to
a very
large
sum, and quite upset any
argument founded
on increased resources
available to meet
the
burthens on
the Revenue of the Colony
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