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2.

2..

very important firet laidh

Enactment was

the

before the Legislative Council by Sir George Bonham on 2nd March last, but the subjet it had engaged the attention

of

the Colonial Government

for a long period anterion to that date..

being objectionable as having too much the nature of a Monopoly. Accordingly,

as

reported to the Secretary of State in Sir George Bonham's Despatch 1102 of 18th December 1848, the number was

fixed

at three and there three Licenses being put up

to

public Auction in November 1848, came into the hands

3..

Adinance P2

of

1848

provided

for

the

appointment

of

A an

one only being

4.

of

increased number of

Shant Serangs,

considered sanctioned by

Ardinance 1/3 of 1845, and

the

appointment of this one

one Iuan..

In June 1849 the two leading Mercantile firms

this Colony brought to the

notice of the Governo

now

a

Che