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cunt of the Police. It amounts to £. 2,500

account-

more-or

: annually, while the expenditure

ow account

of the Police Force alone, independent of Police Magistrates, fails, ferding of Prisoners, and other incidental charges, aggregates

£4282.

the

The share of this tax paid by mercantile part of the populations, and whe

: the letter, amounts to £600

alone

More C

sign

less, king somewhat less than

quarter of the whole assessment : This

doubt

may

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be considered disproportionate.

with reference to the whole population

of the Colony, but it is by

με

no means 40,

- frence king had to the amount of

represented. by the mercantile

--4-.

ones

wealth

body

7.

214

Mr. Campbell appears to consider

that a reduction of £. 1,000 on the Land Revenue would be sufficient

sufficient to remove the

et the

dissatisfaction expressed against

amount

which is at present realized by Government

this source. In Despatch Nr. 89

from

Qu

of 15th November, 1848, I have already expressed my opinion that it would be advisable to the local Government

to give discretionary power to reduce in some particular cases the rents on grounds which it may

be clear cannot afford. the

sums nois

payable on them, and which,

OWN CR

if insisted on, might compel the

the lots altogether. If a

to throw

мере satisfactory arrangement

with the Public at a

be

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to

to the Government

newt can

loss

of not

anore

than the above

d)

and to the value of property which the Police Force is called on to assist ins protecting.

sum,

I think

"the subject entitted to the indulgent consideration of Her Majesty's Government

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