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MAURITIUS.
THE SECRETARY OF STATE to THE GOVERNOR
[Austrered by No. 75.]
(No 32)
Downing Street, 6 February, 1905. SIR,
I HAVE the honour to acknowledge the receipt of your despatch, No. 446, of the 12th of December.* with regard to the military contribution of the Colony.
You should proceed with the new Ordinance and should give instructions which will ensure that the sum of Rs. 64,478 15, wrongly deducted from railway revenue in 1902-3. shall not be taken into consideration in fixing the capital expenditure from revenue on railways on which 4 per cent. is to be deducted under the new arrange-
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Amendment of Section 3
2 Section three of the Principal Ordinance is amended by the addition of the of the words following that is to say :-
Principal Ordinance.
age when
Provided also that from and after the first day of January 1904 in the Deduction case of any railways telephones or other productive undertakings the cost of percent- of the construction of which has been or hereafter may be defrayed out of the under- Revenue of the Colony and not by means of a loan there shall be deducted takings are annually from the gross receipts of such railways telephones or other under- con- takings during a period of fifty years a sum equal to four per cent. on the structed capital expenditure incurred in the establishment of such railways telephones Revenue. or other undertakings and the percentage shall be struck on the net receipts if any after deducting the said sum of four per cent. Passed this 2nd day of December, 1904.
E. L. BROCKMAN,
Clerk of Councils.
out of
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SIR,
(No. 12.)
No. 63
I have, &c..
ALFRED LYTTELTON.
STRAITS SETTLEMENTS.
THE GOVERNOR to THE SECRETARY OF STATE. (Received February 13, 1905.)
[Copy to War Office, February 21, 1905.] [Urdinance sanctioned April 14. 1905. – No. 85,]
Government House, Penang, 13th January, 1905. With reference to your despatch, No. 116, of the 17th May last. I have the honour to forward Ordinance No. XVII. of 1904, entitled "An Ordinance to amend
The Defence Contribution Ordinance, 1899.'`
2.
I also enclose a copy of the Attorney-General's report on the Ordinance.
I have, &c..
JOHN ANDERSON.
Enclosure 2 in No. 63.
REPORT on an Ordinance to amend The Defence Contribution Ordinance, 1899," being Ordinance No. XVIII. of 1904.
1.
This Ordinance was introduced with the approval of the Secretary of State. 2. It amends the Defence Contribution Ordinance, 1899, by providing that in the case of productive undertakings carried out not by means of loans but out of surplus revenue, in calculating the percentage of the profits to be paid as Defence Contribution, an annual deduction is to be made from the gross receipts of the undertaking, during a period of 50 years, of four per cent. on the capital expenditure incurred in the undertaking.
3. Under the present law a similar deduction is made from the gross receipts of any productive undertaking carried out with borrowed money, for interest and sinking fund.
4. It seemed unfair that no corresponding deduction should be made.when the undertaking has been carried out by means of surplus revenue.
5. I am of opinion that this Ordinance may properly receive the Royal assent.
Attorney-General's Chambers,
Singapore, 7th December, 1904.
W. R. COLLYER,
Attorney-General.
Enclosure 1 in No. 63.
STRAITS SETTLEMENTS.
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No. 64.
ORDINANCE No. XVIII. Of 1904.
The Defence Contribution Ordinance 1899."
AN ORDINANCE to amend
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[2nd December, 1904.]
JOHN ANDERSON,
Governor and Commander-in-Chief.
(L.S.)
It is hereby enacted by the Governor of the Straits Settlements with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council thereof as follows:-
"
The Defence Contribution Ordinance 1890 1. This Ordinance may be cited as **
Principal called the Amendment Ordinance 1904" and shall be read and construed as one with The Defence Contribution Ordinance 1899" (hereinafter Ordinance"). Any copy of the Principal Ordinance printed after the commence- ment of this Ordinance may be printed with the amendments required by this Ordinance.
• No. 59.
↑ No. 40.
CEYLON.
THE GOVERNOR to THE SECRETARY OF STATE. (Received 6 March, 1905.)
(Confidential.)
SIR,
[Answered by No. 81.]
King's Pavilion, Kandy, February 13th, 1905.
I HAVE the honour to enclose for your information and that of the Colonial Defence Committee a copy of a letter received from Brigadier-General Money, Com- manding the Troops in this Colony.
2. I have approved of his desire.
I have, &c.,
HENRY A. BLAKE,
Governor, &c.
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