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the additions to the tenements made in the

cours £

of 2urs last twelvemonth's offer a subject

of taxation which

be expected to yield.

something considerable. A valuation is now

in progress, and when the whole is completed,

I shall be able to inform Your Lordship of

ぜひ

prospects from this source of revenue :

The Police being paid by the

Government, it seemed necessary

in this

instance to adopt the mode of assessment: In the case however of Proces and Seurage, it is

proposed, as soon as the work's first called for

shall have been completed, to throw the repairs or improvements of the future entirely into the hands of local Commissioners, who will be invested by Ordinance with the

responsibility of the entire mand

of these

the n.

arj

agement matters, and with authority to levy

•

nicessory

by funds to meet the Expenditure. The lighting of the Town has alwa

always

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from the first, been made compulsory on the

inhabitants.

as a measure of Police, each house

contributing its share to the general lighting.

On

account of some doubts

entertained by the Attorney-General, as to the strictly constitutional character of the species

of Capitation Tax contemplated by the Registration,

--

the measure was suspended in November last; but on the receipt of Your Lordship's

instructions in return, I shall be quite

prepared to resort to it, should any authority be given to that effect, as I find that it is not disapproved in the Despatch

under reply- The Opium farm has been sold for about £2,000 during the first year,

but I

consider this as quite trifling, compared with what it may be expected to victo when the system has been fairly established, and when its profitableness has become apparent from

experience.

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