and welfare Act with which the Municipal Council may become
concerned.
It appears to me that the most satisfactory
method of achieving the former aim is to require that
the annual estimates of the Council should be submitted
to the central Government for approval, as is in fact
the requirement in some other Colonies. The estimates
of the Council would take account of the revenue which
the Council might expect to get from rates and fees
and the resultant deficit, after approval by the central
Government, would be met by a grant-ir-aid from central
Government funds. In paragraph 3(1) of my despatch of
3rd July 1947 I said that there would be no objection
to the proceeds of specified taxes being assigned to
the Municipal Council. On further consideration it
appears to me that such assigned taxes might be subject
to considerable variation one way or the other from year
to year and that the efore it would be botter, instead
of adopting this course, to supplement the revenues of
the Council accruing from its own rates and fees by apple men tarny
grant-in-aid from the central Goverment.
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opinions expressed in paragraphs 34 and 42 of Sir Mark
Young's published despatch No.145 of. 22nd October, 1946,
but it appears to me essential in present circumstances.
The question whether any modification can be made in it
can be considered when experience has been obtained of
the new arrangements and when the finances of the Colony/Commullen Aben
are no longer subject to control by His Majesty's
Government.
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