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Tables showing its rise and

progress

from 1848,

1848, the date of my taking charge

of it.. From there

your

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Gree will

»

thserve that the call on the Home

Gremment for Parliamentary Grant

has been actuced from £25,00 to

£8,500 for

1500 for the current

year i

that

the hypenditure has been reduced from £62,658 to £38,418; that the number of square-rigged Venel's frequenting the Port has increased from 700 to 1103, while their tonnage is nearly double; and that the Population has in like manner

advanced 82

per

ecut during

the

past 6 years.-

Recitation in saying that, were this

In conclusion, I have

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Colony tused in the same way as are the Settlements in the Straits under

the

government of the East Ardina Company, it could in a year or two

be made to pay its own

Expenses,

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without the efficiency of the Government

being impaired, but I have considered

myself

bound

by the opinions expressed

House of

by the Committee of the Auc Commons in the Session of 1847 upon

our Commercial relations with Thina, and in concequence refrained from the imposition of any new taves. Imust, however, with great deference Lay, after an experience of 22 years in the Settlements of Prince of Wales' Gland, Singapore and Malacca,