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owing to
the panic it would be to the lowest classes the deaths word probably
wrong
to assume that itrey the coolie class but those who removed were chiefly of the Merchant and well to do shop huping
best customers of the Farde
were
more nohueronis.
confined aurougst
ere Inday of
there the
classes and were
Upon the 112. July last your will in
Memorialiste addressed a
Communication to the Honourable the Colonial treasurer in which
they pointed out the serious dimmution that had taken place in the receipts of the faren owing to the Colony having been emptied o over one third of its inhabitants and to the stoppage of the large passenger traffic which had formerly existect and asked that a substantial reduction say of $10,000 a mouth might
your Memorialisto be made in the rest of the farm for the "theeur uncxpiced portion of
the trur.
they
as
9.
Your Memorialists regret to state that the answer received from the Colonial streasurer was to the effect that the Governor was unable to assent to
any reduction in the amount payable the mouthily rent of the Farm and therefore your Memorialists in order to prevent the forfeiture by the Government of the #85.200 recutiound in paragraph 2 on the 19th July reget paid to the Colonial treasurer the $23.400 three rent then owing to the fovernment under the grant and paid the furitier rent as itt,
fell dide up to the conclusion of the but these rents were farm admission on the part of your Memorialists of the right of.
paid under protest and without only Governmite demand then!
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the
that it would Your Memorialisto humbly subruit to that it would be most inequitable for the Government to retain the your Lordship whole of the amounts so paid wonder pressure and
they earnestly by that Your Lordship will give the necessary directions to the local
Government to return to your Memorialisto whatever may fair equivalent
all the circumstances into consideration, be considered a
to the losses sustained by the Farmurs. In July 1894 your Mecuserialists considered $70,000 would be a reasonable amount to be refunded to them but after the Plaque ceased in October the residents who had left the Colony during
the sixcatence of the epidemic
of the epidemie began to returer and
(3)
Your