CO129-012 - Sir John Davis - 1845 [5-7] — Page 408

have studiously avoided as much as possible any approach to an interferences with the freedom of the Port by duties on its trade, even the levying of a tonnage rate. Were a Custom house required for the collection of the duty on tines and spirit, it would be established almost solely for that end, and the charges might therefore be a heavy deduction from the gressreceipt.

Under these circumstances, . nothing remained but to attempt a mode of collection which might dispense with

Custom house Establishment. The

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Ordinance of which I have the honor to forward the Draft has been proposed with that view; and the facility speed of communication that have preferred submitting the Ordinance on its present shape to Your Lordship previous to its adoption, .

communication is now such

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the experience and Knowledge on pants of this nature available in England may supply important amendments and additions on to important a point

Imust add, at the same time,

that no tax could be proposed in this Colony so unpopular with all classes, whether mercantile or otherwise; and I wouts further beg to be instructed as to the liability of the Troops and the _ military department to contribute to the lax, as an

impression prevails here that Exempted.

they

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Considerable facilities for the wasion of the duty might be afforded by the unusually extensive frontage of the town of Victoria, stretching as it does along nearly three miles of the north coast of this island; but it mo be hoped that the declarations on the

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