Serial
From or to whom.
No.
Despatch No., &c.
Date.
10
War Office ...
Straita
1899.
June 13
Settle-
ments.
11
To the Governor
Straits Bettle- ments, 174.
June 14
12
Treasury
1
Straits Settle- mente.
June 22
14
13
To the Governor ...
Straits Settle- ments,
June 24
Telegram.
Straits Settle-
mente.
14
Treasury
14
15
15
16
War Office ...
Straits
Bettle-
ments.
June 27
June 29
17
16
To Treasury
Straits
July 5
Settle- ments.
18
(24658–9.) Wt. 1998—G 21. 30, 6/12. D& 8.
Subject.
Forwards letter addressed to the Treasury agreeing to the proposal in No. 4 that only the not receipts from the pro- posed Penang telephone system should be assessed to military contribution, and to the extension of the principle new undertakings of a similar nature, each case, however, to be con sidered on its merits.
to
Sanctions Ordinance 6 of 1899, for- warded in No. 8, and requests him to Inform the Unofficial Members that their protest has been received, and to refer them to No. 3, which should be laid before the Council if this has not already been done.
Agrees that the receipts from the public telephone system to be established in Penang should be assessed at their net and not at their gross amount, and to the application of this principle to new undertakings not different in charac- ter and productiveness from railways: but each case should be considered on its merits by the three Depart- ments concerned.
Informs him in reply to No. 1 that His Majesty's Government agree to con- tribution based on net receipts.
Enquires the exact significance of the phrase "and all other military charges whatsoever" in Clause 5 of the Ordi- nance in No. 9, and suggests inclusion in any further Ordinance which may be enacted of a provision that the increase of contribution should not affect the liability of the Colonial Government to provide, free of charge, any available Colonial military land required for military works.
Suggests, in order to avoid misconcep- tion as to the meaning to be attached to the words "and all other military charges whatsoever" in the Ordinance enclosed in No. 9, an addition to the Ordinance to the effect that the Colony is liable to provide, free of charge, any available Colonial military land required for sites for military
works.
an amendment to Submits text of
the Defence Contribution Ordinance providing for the assessment to con- tribution of the net revenue only from productive undertakings such as railways, do, in order to avoid the necessity of an amending Ordinance' for every fresh undertaking, and states that if Treasury concur in the amend- ment the Governor will be instructed that no new undertaking is to be deemed "of a similar character" to railways without previous reference to the Secretary of State; explains that the words referred to in No. 14 were inserted with the concurrence of the War Office.
Page.
19
20
20
21
21
22
22
The Governor
Straits
Settle-
(Rec. May 15.)
ments,
144.
6
Ditter
Straita
Settle- ments, 151.
April 26 (Rec. May 22.)
7
Ditto
Straits Settlo- ments,
166.
May 3 (Rec. May 29.)
Proposes to exclude from revenue upon which the military contribution is to be assessed the three annual instal- ments to be repaid by the War Office on account of the excess contribution paid by the Colony from 1895 for defence.
Reports that Ordinance to amend the "Defence Contribution Ordinances 1896 and 1898" has been read a third time in the Legislative Council, and encloses protest by the Unofficial Members of the Council against the Bill in its present form.
*
To the Governor
Straita
May 31
Bettle-
menta,
162.
Approves proposal in No. 6 and adde that the repayments need not appear at all under revenue; provided that the net amount of the military contribu- tion is entered under expenditure.
17
9
The Governor
Straite
Bettle-
May 12 (Rec. June 5.)
ments,
184.
Forwards Ordinance VI. of 1899, "To repeal and re-enact with amendmenta The Defence Contribution Ordinances of 1896 and 1898'" with Attorney- General's report thereon.
PUBLIC RECORD OFFICE
Reference:-
C.O. 882
9
PUBLIC RECORD OFFICE, LONDON
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