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from the Fees for Licensing gambling Houses.
I can hardly say that the information with which you have furnished me as to the depressed state of the Finances of the Colony, and the means by which you have suggested that they might, to some extent, be relieved, have not engaged my most serious consideration.
I would however point out to you that you are mistaken in supposing that the claim of Her Majesty's Government to a Military Contribution, The allegation which may, as you argue, be incorrect that the Revenue of 1866 was greater, or practically greater, than that of 1863.