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that the seam to be pacised ab first. be hoped. ( under any reasonable assessment) to equal the expenses of the Police force at present maintained.

In the case

the

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of the Roads and Sewers, it is contemplated that the schole management, as well as the means of defraying the expenditures, shall be place in the hands of Commissioners on the part of the Colonists - As regards

- Police force however, the organization and appointment being in the hands of the Government, it seemed less rasy expedient to best the charge of depaying the cost, in the public comverunity.

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may perhaps be

or

the new Colony, this considered as an experiment which is hereafter to be improved upon; and while it may be hoped that the repented of

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the Police will diminish, the increase houses and peal property will afford

augmenting fund on which to draw.

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and

The great improvement which has taken place during the last livelve months in respect to the security of person property has been generally acknowledged and fell, and it is therefore to be hoped that

a.

- call for the necessary contribution will be cheerfully anch; notwithstanding the repugnance to wither taxation or control among a Community which before this island was erected into a Colony had been

accustomed to neither the one nor the other.

It

appeared to the Council necesary

a

to introduce, the 7th clause, giving discretionary power to exempt certain districts from the operation of the lick, as there are places to which the Police of hetória does not reach, and which

therefore,

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