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" question of finance, I should

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"sproposed, as affording " mischievous precedent. " The deficit in the Treasury, " however arising, and the "demands of the public

service

" have little in common to

" arrest this Council's

" attention, so

long

as

the

"Imperial Parliament is

" determined to provide for

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' the latter, and to supply

" the first . _ It has nowhere. " been said that this Colony

" is to

even in

support itself "ordinary times; and the present times are not " ordinary. If the Legislative " Council of Houghong, " eveceding the vigilance of "The House of Commous of " the United Kingdom, be " determined to lay

down

" such a rule in the case " now before it, where, it :

" may be asked, is the application of that rule " to stop? The

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