Refining of Sugar is not an industry, which the laws of the Colony permit the Governor to tax. We believe it, moreover, to be a novelty in fiscal administration, to tax the prosperity of any manufacturing concern at a lump sum, without regard to details and the Governor, when he fixed $2000 as the license fee, applied to us, having never having any other legitimate source, for information touching the affairs of the Company, must necessarily have been in complete ignorance of the part which distilling has borne, and is likely in the future to bear, in the prosperity of the Company. What figures, as the basis of calculation, His Excellency has been proceeding on, we do not pretend to guess. But whatever they were, they must have been untrustworthy, if they lead to the result arrived at by the Executive.
As a matter of fact, the history of the Distillery has, as already pointed out, been hitherto invariably disastrous, and it is beyond all question that the distillation of spirits, in this Colony, has...
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Refining of Sugar is not an industry, which the laws of the Colony permit the Governor to tax. We believe it, moreover, to be a novelty in fiscal administration, to tax the prosperity of any manufacturing concern at a lump sum, without regard to details and the Governor, when he fixed $2000 as the license fee, applied to us, having never having any other legitimate source, for information touching the affairs of the Company, must necessarily have been in complete ignorance of the part which distilling has borne, and is likely in the future to bear, in the prosperity of the Company. What figures, as the basis of calculation, His Excellency has been proceeding on, we do not pretend to guess. But whatever they were, they must have been untrustworthy, if they lead to the result arrived at by the Executive.
As a matter of fact, the history of the Distillery has, as already pointed out, been hitherto invariably disastrous, and it is beyond all question that the distillation of spirits, in this Colony, has...
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462
Vec.
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