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as to disc

die-courage

the resort of

mere amount

Chinese to the Colony appears not only from its but from the fact that the Houses occupied by this class of persons have increased, from

734 in 1846 to 1620 in 1850, and that the Police rate, chargeable : at 5 per cent on

the annual rental of Houses, has steadily advanced during the last 5 years, mainly owing to the erection of buildings intended for the occupation of

chinese

7.

They

Next

ao

to Foreigners.

were in August last 1210 occupying 349 houses and

paying

paying house

£4489.

the

average

Lar

and

assessment was

that of each occupier

This

from £6 to £7 Sovernor remarks, would

an exorbitant tax

were

ao

the

be

it ine

of many charges; but not so

when viewed as

(with

one

exception)

the

only

contribution

towards the expenses of fovernment

which is levied from the residents.

in the @

Colony

It

is

however,

admitted that several large

mercantile Firmo

are

subject

to heavy annual Rents of which the heaviest are

those

of Mefor: Dent, which amounts

to Lazy

and

Chat

of

Mego"?

Jardine

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Jardine, which amounts to £688; but then it is explained, and we think quite satisfactorily, that their premises including many which are let out to chinese,

are

so extensive

that these

and valuable,

Rents

are

not

Various circumstances

exorbitant. Various

are mentioned to shew this and

we

have

already

noticed the

and the

absence of complaint

Judgment of

Caves

the Committee, in the

brought before them, as

evidence of

p

agrees

in

the

same point.

Finally, the Sovernors

with the Colonial Treasurer

considering the proposal of

Mefore Ruart Мере

and

Davidson