recommended that
the
Strait.
Hongkong
Chound
CofEaster Coloues
the contributions should be fixed
a percentage of
the revenue. [WO Fruit A 338] Lyon TÉ%
In 1901 Hongkong was
defrayed of the cost barrack works & the whole
In the
case
of Ceylon the Straits the military contributions
in fixed at
percentage of revenue less land sales
172%
of
the
gross
revenue.
Mauritius 5%
premium on leases.
of new
cost
&
new
Defence works and
the
Two Pri
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raised
military contribution was
17½%
of
Colony from
the "gross receipts of the
revenue "exclusive
of the proceed of land sales
In 1896 [11145] the unofficial
members of the Legislative Council
requested that - the 17½% remaining
the same
the assessable revenue neither should
be strictly principal
what they considered
revenue together with postal receipts
Appropriations in and should
be left out of account in calculating
the assessable revenue.
On October 1896
the Governor of Ceylon pointed out that this would seriously prejudice the building of new railways
since they
would be burdened with the
their receipts.
they
payment of 7½%.
After
some hesitation
the
difficulty of drawing
the question
was referred to the
Interdepartmental Committee on whose
advice it
was decided in 1897
to allow the contribution to be calculated
on the net railway receipts - the
Mauritius percentages
In reply
Ceylon
raised
the amount of the military contribution had been fixed at 17½%
of the gross
revenue
that that was
fair
the circumstances of the Colony it would be necessary if the mode of assessing the
The proposal was refused.
The percentage
was accordingly
increased
to compensate for the
assessment.
The
new
method
was not
in the Straits
necessary
to increase the percentage
accordingly
if they did build
they
would only pay
the
Colony's
net pro-15!
at the same