CO129-019 - Sir John Davis - 1847 [1-4] — Page 222

A

duty

on Wines and spirits imported into the

Colony - No Custom-house whatever is in

cxistener-

Onc

this

of the beneficial results of perfect freedom of trade has been the fast communicated to your Lordship in my Despatch. Mr. 141 of 12th December, wherein it appears, from the statement of M. Coneal Macgregon, that a large proportion of the British Reports for fanton are previouely warehoused in this felony.-

Ar

statement

for

inspection of the comparative

the two

years at. Pages 28

and

29 of the Blue Book will shew that the

Revenue in the last

increase.

of

has

accrued rather

from

the

year improved

Rxpenditure.

Parliament for its Civil-hupenditure,

amounting for two years to £9.119. my Despatch - N2 17 of

detailed in

February.-

217

12 th

With the Strong opinion of the Board of Trade in favour of the tax levied on the consumption of Opium, as expressed in the Inclorure to your Lordship's despatch_ Nr. 4 6 of

24th November, and with own concurrent

my convictions on the same subject,

I shall

continue to derive a revenue

from this.

Louree, with such modifications of the

existing

law

as

time and

experience may

productiveness of existing imports, than from

the enactment of

new ones. –

By the aid of the Revenue levied

in the fetony, I have been able to dispense

with

a

portion of the sums voted in

dietate.

While the income of this Colony has

increased

satisfactory

during

the past year,

it is

to observe that the total.

Expenditure has diminished, the difference.

amounting to £6.575.9.8. In my despateb N 137 of November 24th I had the how to report retrenchments of a permanent-