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for the necessary expenditure supposed to be Rules according to required for those three particular purposes. The introduction of the water supply, and improvements in as well as in the constitution of the Police force itself, in proportion as the town extends and the population increases, have all led to the increase of those rules proportioned to the requirements of the city. It would however not suit the object with which Your Grace compares the Revenue of 1863 and 1866 to treat the amount received for Police Rate and Water Rates in the latter year as any augmentation, and really placing any disposable Revenue 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 amount raised for the above objects in 1863 (viz: $130,000) and that raised in 1866 (viz. $204,000), or in other words $74,000 from the total Revenue of 1866, so as to constitute fairly the comparison which Your Grace is anxious to draw.
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A similar deduction would have to be made on account of the expenditure for Pensions in the two years, but the difference was not very great, and I pass it by. The inevitable deductions, however, already made as above amount to a very large sum and quite upset any...