CO129-023 - Sir John Davis - 1848 [1-3] — Page 212

every

desire to meet

their wishes, and to

promote the interests

or really be for "the advantage of the colony":

te that this measure

of the Commu

with I

canush Admich then they

have established any

good ground for the

Reduction

they

Seek

& 44 m. God are of opined t after the large grants which have already been made for Hongkong, I do not think it would be proper under the circumstances to be asked to provide for

it would be fatal to the

objects of

the Settlements WANA

a revenue

Arise by Customs

duties or dues on

shipping,

nor is there

& in wh the residents

the expense of those services to wh the residents in the colony are chiefly interested; if therefore these services are to be reduced it would be necessary that the deficiency in the colonial revenue should be supplied by some new source.

But under

the import mode

any be the other

to occasion

of losing the requisite amount of income which appears to be liable to very little just objection

that of obtaining

it from the occupiers of land the

arrangement of

had a

A

Rent, the amount

of which has been determined by

public

Competition,

to wh

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and therefore

virtually fixed by the

+

" liable to it have voluntarily subjected themselves, would

be found the most

If for appeal

the first

contestants..

would have been Is at independently of these combat the reasons in support of the arrangement on this subject which was adopted

te

there

pare to sections the

any kind of objection

te the

danger

of acceding

of the

when the settlement was first established, Petitioners would, the effect of now altering that arrangement

I

regist

concise, te highly, anguish

be

to the unsuccessful bidders for the lots, as

well as to the people affected by wh the Petitioners are now in hopes only in consideration of their