CO129-049 - Sir Bowring and Lieut Governor Caine - 1855 [1-4] — Page 294

prosperity of the

the Oolony. The opportunity for selling this ground with advantage may pass, and it may hereafter take a long time, before such a faverable opportunity offers,

again.

At the close of 1854

alove of 1854 the

Rent Roll showed £11, 2.50 un 12

as the annual Rent due

Lease - Lands; since that time.

-

tivo Public sales added £775.1.9.

to the immal Dent,

more

With the

it now use to £12,0257.100

exceptions of the Encipts for Auctioneer License at the the t Salt and Stone Sicenses £437%10:0 and Boarding House Keepers, B.7.18.0. all other items show a

considerable increase.-

The decreuse under tructioneer

292

Licenses is not real; it is caused

by the lenationcers paying

1 paying in 18158/54 the whole year, having

•

at

once for

1854/55 availed themselves, of the opportunity given them by pay in quarterly

Ordinance to

half-yearly instalments. The decrease, for salt- and Stove Sicenses

in

1547/48 £1691. 13. 14. 10.

i

of £ 437,10) in however Ital, 1845/346 they brought $957% 17. Z

1848/49 they fell to £4,55€ 16.6. and have since gradually cave down to

376, th48 per Annnun. Sex

already

my letter above alluded to Shaver

temarked on this subjecte The last decrence of £7. 10)- is. caused by one person weasing Keep & Bouring House for sailors; it in huwever gratifying

is

that

DOVANc o

of

to lewark

the holders of Boarding.