in population
afford
A/
riches; so
ao
to necessitate
more expensive Police Force, I
except for those special objects of which the
Licensing of Gambling features.
me
of the principal
the excess of expenditure
Having therefore this last I find that
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If the mode of calculating the Police
charges defrayable from the Licenses suggested by
to
propose $120,000 per
me
be
approved
a.o
I would
make a round sum, viz:
chargeable to the
Colony for the maintenance of its Police, and
was
in 1869 $41,491.2.
all expenditure, beyond that
and in 1868 $61,869" in addition to which
there were in the latter
year payments for the Colonial Schooner and Police Stations amounting together to $10,038 both of which, according to His Excellency's Memo, are chargeable to the Licenses.
The balance to the credit of the fund
on 31st December last was $163,718.38 which amount is deducted from the available Assets
of the Colony on that date.
sum,
should
be considered as forming part of the special objects for which the Gambling Licenses were
the control of Gambling and
created
viz:
Suppression of Crime, and be charged accordingly.
I do not anticipate any
more receipts
for the special fund before the 30th instant and as half a year's salaries have already been paid, I have made the special fund account up, as if to the 30th
of June
and