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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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control may cause disappointment locally in view of the

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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