Mardennell would readily
mate
any
ments
fethin
anned
in the forms what
Wherrence might shew
would
alim?
yer.
simplify
An
lib/
and that it is
the Saturnalis
undeation
that
possible mashereafter be found advisable to make still further modifications.
( I do not myself altogether like the
whole
J
Sir R. M. arrangement; & I doubt whether it will be convenient
for the C.O. to have to deal with a variety of forms of estimates : but much care & ingenuity have been expended in this case,
we need not now reopen the question :) Mun 700 22/70
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Memorandum
Jn1628/70
595
the Colonial Estimates,
Hong Kong 1870-
A
total
The Abstract, page 4, shows Estimated Revenue of $781,666: but this would appear to be exclusive of receipts from gambling Licenses, out of which, as I understand from pages 16, 19 and 24, Marine, Educational and Police Expenditure
to the amount of $96,460 is to be defrayed: This appears to
me to be
a grave defect in the Estimate of Revenue, which ought, in my opinion, to include the whole of the means at the disposal of the Colony : and it seems the less defensible
As
I find that the receipts under Ordinance No:10 of 1869 (* 1867) which (unless I am...)
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Corrected version in HTML format as requested:Mardennell would readily mate any ments fethin anned in the forms what Wherrence might shew would alim? yer. simplify An lib/ and that it is the Saturnalis undeation that possible mashereafter be found advisable to make still further modifications.
( I do not myself altogether like the whole Sir R. M. arrangement; & I doubt whether it will be convenient for the C.O. to have to deal with a variety of forms of estimates : but much care & ingenuity have been expended in this case, we need not now reopen the question :) Mun70022/70
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Copy Memorandum Jn1628/70 595 the Colonial Estimates, Hong Kong 1870-
A total
The Abstract, page 4, shows Estimated Revenue of $781,666: but this would appear to be exclusive of receipts from gambling Licenses, out of which, as I understand from pages 16, 19 and 24, Marine, Educational and Police Expenditure to the amount of $96,460 is to be defrayed: This appears to me to be a grave defect in the Estimate of Revenue, which ought, in my opinion, to include the whole of the means at the disposal of the Colony : and it seems the less defensible As I find that the receipts under Ordinance No:10 of 1869 (*1867) which (unless I am...
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