your consideration that it sn
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Skip the Assessed
Texes and the Spirit Licences should
be incuat
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Subject to the above remarks
I prove these timates and Her Majesty
will not be advised to exorcise Fer
power of disallowance with respect .0
Ordinance No.27 of 1898 of the Tegisla-
ture of Hong Kong entitled "An Ordin-
ance to apply a sun not exceeding Two
Million Five Hundred and Mighty Seven
Thousand Fight Fundred and inety-eight
Dollars and Bighty Cents to the Public
Service of the year 1899", a transcript
of which accompanied your despatch
under acknowledgment.
20 I cannot close this des-
patch without expressing my apprecia-
tion of the care which Dajor-General
nlack has devoted to the consideration
of the financial questions dealt with
in