353
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everything is co
flourishing, the community will fairly ack has
not the time arrived when some
consideration
may
be
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given to the
to the
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tax-payers
and expecially
Householders in the Colony xxx
row before venturing to say how
we
might deal with that (the
house lay) I should like to wak
you to consider two other items
revenue to which I have now
to reter
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I concluded that financial Statement by saying:-
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If you agree
with me that we
ought to determine our revenue this
year at something like that figure
($900,000) then
you
will at once
see the feasibility of our making
some reductions of taxation; and
this
point of course we shall bear in mind in doing
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that
if
I then entered pretty
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the revenue
fully into the question of the
the Government ought to obtain from
a proper management of the excise
on
the
spium
and spirits.
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doing so,
namely.
we stimulate the opium
Farm, and if we
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gain much
of revenue from the
Spirit Farm, we ought at once
to reduce taxation upon those who
are
moducing the wealth of the