CO129-006 - Sir John Davis - 1844 — Page 454

the

returned home altogether, or on sick leave, and whose names do not appear in

accompanying document have not. 401 ucaved any Salary since Scame. Shaver consequently unable to deduct the

been coride

arrcard due o ac

account of the tox. In

the Certificate however, tohich they received of the tince up to which their . Salaries have been paid, it is streted & for the information of the Fords of the

of Nad heasury that the

arrears or a

of the tox are

the tax are unrecovered.

account

With regard to Clicks remployed in the Governmorit Offices, I have fremd very great difficulty in complying with the terms of Your Lordship's Despatch :

Of deducted from all Salaries above the

I Sum of £150 a

-year for the past quarter

course the income tax has been

and shall continue to be so in future.

But

Na 2

that

449

But, considering the scale of their salaries has been hitherte barely sufficient for subsistence, and that in the majority of

the inevitable consequence of

these

cases

calling up the

no

arrears would be, that these persons would get into debt, or have to borrow money to meet the demand, which could only be had ow

the most ruinart termis; I have felt it my duty before carrying out this part of the instructions, to represent to Your Lordship the great. public inconvenience that would follow,

they

wwere

they, necessarily acquainted as must be with many subjects, which it is advisable not to have publicly- promulgated, forced to lay themselves under pecuniary obligations to the monied interest in this Colony.

The amount to be received.

by

the heasury from this sance is to

Very