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the finance committee and in the Committee of the Council on the bill; and I said that I should address
Your Lordship
separate despatch.
on this point in a
2.
That this is the case i
notorious in the colony,?
indeed
it is obvious that, unless they
for their action than
had
other reasons
those which they ostensibly advanced, the unofficial members would never have ex pored themselves to the reply which their motion received from the Colonial Prevetary. As Your Lordship will have seen from the enclosures of my despatch, the Colonial Secretary
Shewed
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showed that instead of diminishing,
the revenue had steadily increased, & that there were other indications theal in spite of large losses
gambling in recent years the
con-
dition of the community taken as a
whole was Sound &
・progressive.
If they had not been influenced by
undisclosed motives, the unofficial
members
they did.
would not have acted as
They must have been
aware, or would, but for there motives,
have made themselves aware, that
the facts were
as stated
Colonial Secretary in his
by
the
reply:- viz.
that the revenue, though of course insufficient to bear the cost of the Large Public Works Extraordmary, in