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of Sixty thousand three hundred £61375. and cleventy-five pounds sterling
for Military Defences, the Amance
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Committee to whom in due
course the question requested to
Avere
roas
referred,
to consider at
the same time what were
best
Incan J
the
for meeting the_
interest and sinking fund
the loan which would have to be raised. The Finance Committee
unanimously reported to the
Connail that "the best means
of doing
so would be chiefly by
an increase of the Stamp Duty: A resolution to that effect
was
subsequently moved, and adopted unanimously by the Legislative Corneil, and a Draft Stamp Bill
was
thereupon introduced with the the existing
object of increasing
rates.
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The principle of
this
Bill was supported by the Honourable Messt! Ryrie, Jackson,
and Keswick, who all agreed that if extra taxation were necessary it was better to increase the Stamp
dutie