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scheme, and that any revision in the meantime would be incomplete and unsatis- factory

(Confidential)

SIR.

I have, &c..

GLC MONEY.

Brigadier-General.

Commanding the Troops Ceylon

Enclosure 2 in No 74

War Office, London, S.W., 25th August. 1905 WITH reference to your confidential letter dated 26th ultimo, I am commanded by the Army Council to inform you that there is no reason to think that Trincomali would be reoccupied in time of war

The General Officer.

Commanding the Troops,

Ceylon

I have, &c.,

R. H. BRADE

period

from loan, a deduction of 4 per cent. on the capital expenditure for a of 50 years may be made, before the net profits are assessed for military con- tribution. In any case where it is doubtful whether expenditure has been of a capital or a recurrent nature, the question shall be referred to the Secretary of State before any deduction is made.

Short Title.

2. This Ordinance may be cited as The Military Contri- bution (Amendment) Ordinance, 1905." Passed in Council at Port Louis, Island of Mauritius, this fourth day of July, One thousand nine hundred and five.

LÉON KENIG,

Clerk of the Council of Government.

Published by order of His Excellency the Governor, this sixth day of July, One thousand nine hundred and five.

D. C. CAMERON,

Acting Colonial Secretary.

Enclosure 2 in No. 75.

PUBLIC RECORD OFFICE

Reference :--

C.O. 882

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SIR.

(No 219)

No. 75 MAURITIUS.

THE GOVERNOR to THE SECRETARY OF STATE (Received August 28, 1905)

Popoy to War Ofire, September 5, 1905. Z.F] [Answered by No. 83.]

Government House, Mauritius, 20th July, 1905. WITH reference to your despatch, No. 32, of the 6th February last,* and to previous correspondence. I have the honour to transmit, for the signification of His To amend Majesty's pleasure. Ordinance No. 15 of 1905, entitled an Ordinance Ordinance No 33 of 1897 (Military Contribution)," together with a copy of the Procureur-General's explanatory report on the Ordinance.

2. Instructions will be given to ensure that the sum of Rs. 64,478 15, wrongly deducted from railway revenue in 1902-03, shall not be taken into consideration in fixing the capital expenditure under Section 1 of this Ordinance.

I have, &c.,

CAVENDISH BOYLE.

(No. 607.)

EXPLANATORY REPORT ON ORDINANCE NO. 15 of 1905.

17th July, 1905. This Ordinance was introduced into the Council of Government on the 23rd May last, and passed on the 4th instant in compliance with the decision conveyed under Secretary of State's despatch, Mauritius, No. 119, of 17th May, 1904.

2. The Ordinance provides for deduction at the rate of 4 per cent. on the capital expenditure for a period of 50 years being made from the gross profits of railways built out of the current revenue or balances; and it thus completes Article 2 of Ordinance No. 33 of 1897, which makes provision for the deduction of the interest and sinking fund charges from the gross profits of railways built out of the proceeds of a loan, before the net profits of the undertaking are assessed for military contri-

bution.

3. I am of opinion that there is no reason why His Majesty should be advised to exercise his powers of disallowance with respect to this Ordinance.

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A. HERCHENRODER.

Procureur-General.

Enclosure 1 in No. 75.

Ordinance No. 15 of 1905.

AN ORDINANCE enacted by the Governor of Mauritius with the advice and consent of the Council of Government thereof to amend Ordinance No. 33 of 1897 (Military Contribution).

I assent.

CAVENDISH BOYLE,

Governor.

6th July, 1905.

Be it enacted by the Governor, with the advice and consent of the Council of Government, as follows:-

Proviso added to Article 2 of Ordinance 33

of 1897.

1. The following enactment is added

as a second proviso to Article 2 of Ordi- Dance No. 33 of 1897:

Provided also that as regards the capital cost of any railway, the con struction of which has been, or shall be hereafter, met from revenue, and not

(No. 354.)

SIR,

No. 76.

STRAITS SETTLEMENTS.

THE GOVERNOR to THE SECRETARY OF STATE. (Received August 28, 1905.)

[Answered by L.F. transmitting copy of Nos. 78 and 80.]

Government House, Singapore, 3 August, 1905.

I HAVE the honour to forward a statement* prepared in accordance with the provisions of Section 4 of Ordinance VI. of 1899, and to inform you that I have authorised the Treasurer to deduct from the actual revenue refunds made after the closing of the accounts for 1904.

2. A case has recently occurred in which a sum of $516 was on the 13th December last overpaid in respect of probate duty on an estate, the true duty leviable being ascertained only after the accounts for the year 1904 had been closed.

3. In this case and others of the same kind the refund is a refund of revenue collected in excess of the proper amount and should not be liable to military con- tribution. I have, therefore, to ask for your sanction to authorise the deduction of such refunds in the same manner in which other deductions on account of land

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sales, telephone exchange, &c., &c, are now, with your sanction, made, by the addition of a new item Refunds of Revenue after closing accounts for the year 190 those authorised in your despatch. No 88, of Sth April. 1904 *

to

I have, &c.

E I BROCKMAN

Governor's Deputy