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8.

Corresponding half year.

This

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will be accounted for by reference to the Government avotice No 26:

of 14 t February last, raising the

14th Police rate from 5 to 10%.

7%. This excess would have been greater.

had

not the Registrar General and Protector off limes, felt it his duty

in March last to advocate the

the Tipos of

Victoria,

appeal of

who represented "That House rent " continued high, and that in " consequence of the vigilance of "the Mandarins and

4

at

" the various towns and seaports

gentry

now trading

Trading

and consequently

"very few vessels were

"

" with the er

evency.

"that scarcely any business was

" doing

that this

Carge Tax would

upon the Chinese.

"fall heavily upon

so much so,

that many would be

compeiled