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rendering them necessary.
3.
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It appears that _
after having been under
consideration for a long time, they had been unanimously passed by the Executive "Council on the 26th of August last year, having previously received the approval of the local Chamber of Commerce. They differed from, the Regulations previously in force chiefly
in two particulars;
(1) in raising the maximum
tariff
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-tariff of prices, and (2) in the requirement as to photographe
The apparent gain
4.
to the boatmen in the increased
tariff
For the
no
was not a real one.
prices
es under it were
-higher than those already! reached by the inexorable law of supply and demand, which had caused maximum of the previous
the
regulations to be altogether
ignored. So that the requirement of photographe
with