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Lables showing its rise and progress 1/5- from 1848, the state of my tating charge
fit..
From these your Grace will observe that the fall on the Home
Government for Parliamentary brant has been reduced from £25,000, to £ $500 for the current year;
that
the expenditure has been reduced from £62,658 to £36418, that the Mumber of square rigged bessels frequenting the Port has mcreased from you to 1103, while their tonnage is nearly double; and that the Population has in like manner
Advanced 82 per cent
Muring
the
"pact 6 years._ In Conclusion, Phave "no hesitation in saying that, were this
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Colony tiges in the same my as are the settlements in the Straits under. the Government of the East India Company, it could in a year or twor be made to pay its ron Expenses, - without the efficiency of the bovernment being impaired, but thave considered Inyaelf bound by the opinions expresad by the Committee of the House of Commons in the session of 1827 4pon our Commercial relations with Churia, And in consequence refrained from The imposition of any new taxes.- Imust, however, with great deference say, after an experience of 22 years in the settlements of Prince of Wales' Island, Amigapore and Malacca,
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