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533
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of the taxpayers of this country.
7. Her Majesty's Government, al-
though hitherto adhering to the principle
that the contribution, whatever its
amount, should be fixed for the time
never
being in sterling, have lost sight of
the fact that it could
noty
consistently
with the efficient administration of
Civil affairs, exceed a certain per-
centage of revenue, and that if at any
time through a diminution of receipts
value
or a fall in the exchange of silver,
the percentage assumed undue proportions,
then a case for the revision of the
sterling demand would arise; but as a
matter of fact during the five years
averag 1890-1894, the average porcentre of the
military contribution,
Havesting
total military expenditure/of the Celery
(watchr-included-
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