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Nub. Financial

1.

AUG 21 1846

294

(Received 14th Hongkong)

Victoria, Hongkong,

My Lord,

In reply to your Lordship's Despatch No 65 of December 16th conveying the decision of the Treasury Board that all arrears of Income tax must be levied from any person indiscriminately receiving more than £150 per annum, I have the honor to state that instructions have been given to the Treasurer accordingly, and he has been further directed, in any case where the whole amount might press with peculiar severity, to obtain the same by Instalments.

I may here add, that in the absence of the Parliamentary sanction arising from information being received of officers, Police, &c. Abstract of Government

The Lord Stanley

Dup: No 45. Reporting Received Zewral Miller!, in Commissary General & deputy Commissarytien on the websitution Coffin.

The Right Honorable,

The Lord Stanley &c.

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Nub. Financial 1. AUG 21 1846 294 (Received 14th Hongkong) Victoria, Hongkong, My Lord, In reply to your Lordship's Despatch No 65 of December 16th conveying the decision of the Treasury Board that all arrears of Income tax must be levied from any person indiscriminately receiving more than £150 per annum, I have the honor to state that instructions have been given to the Treasurer accordingly, and he has been further directed, in any case where the whole amount might press with peculiar severity, to obtain the same by Instalments. I may here add, that in the absence of the Parliamentary sanction arising from information being received of officers, Police, &c. Abstract of Government The Lord Stanley Dup: No 45. Reporting Received Zewral Miller!, in Commissary General & deputy Commissarytien on the websitution Coffin. The Right Honorable, The Lord Stanley &c. Page 300 Page 301
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Nub. Financial 1. .0. AUG 21 1046 294 (SERIVED 1441 Hongkong Vistoria, Honghong, My Lord, In N 29th April, 1845. reply to your Lordship's Despatch No 65 of December 16th conveying the decision of the Treasury Board that all arrears of Income tax must be levied from any person indiscriminately receiving more than £150 I have the honor to state that per annum instructions have been given. to the Treasurer acendingly, and he has been further directed, in any cale where the whole amount might press with peculiar severity, to obtain. the same by Instalments. I may here add, that inn the absence of the Parliamentary sanction arising from information being received of officers, Police, to tick Abstract of Government The Lord Stanley Dup: No 45. Reporting Received Zewral Miller!, in & Commissary General of deputy Commissarytien on the websitution Coffin. The Right Honorable, The Lord Stanley fe. to the Page 300Page 301
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Nub. Financial

1.

.0.

AUG 21 1046

294

(SERIVED 1441 Hongkong

Vistoria, Honghong,

My Lord,

In

N

29th April, 1845.

reply to your Lordship's Despatch

No 65 of December 16th conveying the decision of the Treasury

Board that all arrears

of

Income tax must be levied from any person

indiscriminately receiving more than £150 I have the honor to state that

per

annum

instructions have been given.

to the Treasurer

acendingly, and he has been further directed,

in

any

cale

where the whole amount

might press with peculiar severity, to obtain.

the same

by

Instalments.

I may here add, that inn the

absence of the Parliamentary sanction

arising from information being received of

officers, Police, to tick

Abstract of Government

The Lord

Stanley

Dup: No 45.

Reporting

Received

Zewral Miller!, in

& Commissary General

of deputy Commissarytien

on the websitution

Coffin.

The Right Honorable,

The Lord Stanley

fe.

to

the

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