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and this regulation involves Colonial Expenditure on the
Police and Harbour Department employes which the fees are
intended to defray.
5.
The fees are never remitted in the
case of boats employed by Contractors to the Colonial
Government, e.g. the Conservancy and Sanitary Contractors,
although being paid to the General Revenue one-fifth of
their amount is credited to the Imperial Government.
They
were not remitted in the case of the Extensive Praya Recla-
Low
-mation Works in which this Government were largely in-
-terested and in this case also the Imperial Government
received their proportion of the payments.
6.
The Contractors for the Admiralty
Extension Works had no reason to believe when they entered
into their contract that they would be treated differently
to any other Government Contractors, and it cannot be as-
-sumed that they based their contract on the supposition
that the regulation of their boats should not be defrayed
by the levying of the same fees as are paid by other Con-
-tractors.
The refunding of the fees would
appear therefore to benefit the Contractors and not the
Admiralty at the expense of the Colony, which in matters of
Imperial