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my donation would cover yearly, and mortgages heavy mostly over to the Census. If the full percentage were paid on the value of our Government property here, to some extent, I have had a possible assessment houses for the Brown resumption, I have discovered the Treasury valuations fall short of the real value of the Government by something like 80 per cent.
The remedy proposed by W. Priest is the serious of an Assessor having technical qualifications, and whose knowledge would render him independent. In hours commercial Surveyor might be obtained from England on £500 a year to pay would be recouped many times over during the first six months, say the absolute certainty of increased revenue to the Colonial Treasury. I would make this Surveyor exclusively a Treasury Officer and he should devote himself entirely to the study of revenue and land values.