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hope that then early cares and Expenses will in due times be repaid by the improved health and growing numbers of respectable and prosperous settlers, and an increased fund be thereby supplied for the acquisition of a Revenue,
On account of such reasons,
The Ordinance which is now before the Councils for appointing lessors of Lands and Houses for the purpose of levying a Police Rate, has been deferred long, chiefly with a view to waiting until a large portion of the property intended to be valued should be completed and actually in a tangible shape. I still hope, however, that the very heavy expenses of the Police at present, necessary (though this may be expected hereafter to diminish