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on Wines and Spirits imposing a duty on Wines imported into the Colony - to Custom house
whatever is in existence. -
One of the beneficial results of this perfect freedom of trade has been the fast
communicated to
your Lordship in
my-
Despatch. 12/41 of 12? December-, wherein it.
412층 appears, from the statement of Mr. Consul Macgregor, that a large proportion of the Pritish raports for fanton are previously. warehoused in this fotony.
An inspection of the comparative
Statement for
the two
two years at Pages 28 and
has
29 of the Blue Book will show that the increase of Revenue in the last year : accrued rather from the improved productivences of existing imports, than from the enactment of new.
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By the aid of the Revenue levied.
in the filony, I have been able to dispense with a portion of the
I
the sums
sums voted in
hopenditure..
Parliament for its civil Expenditure, amounting
to £9.119.
as detailed in
for two year Despatch No217 of 12th February-
my
With the strong opinion of the Board
the
of Trade in favour of the tax levied on consumption of Opium, as expressed in the Inclosure to four Lordship's Jeepatch. No246· of 24th November, and with.
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coeurrent convictions on the same
subjeet, from... this source, with such modifications of the
I shall contine to derive a revenue.
exicting
law as time and experience, may
dietate..
While the Seenive of this Colony has
increased
during the past year, it is
to mere that the total
satisfactory Expenditure has diminished, the difference amounting to £6.375.9.8. In my. Scepated No 157 of November 24th I had the honor
to
report retrenchments of a permanent seature, in the reduction of Salaries, to
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