they
Well
९.
Saffected in common with all
persons engaged in the Girl broice
hown.
of the
their Lordships have already sapressed their opinion that all Pensions hereafter Granted to fivil Servants at Hong Kong
thald be deprayed from the Revenue of
arrsapment
the Colony, as part of the arrangem under which the whole expense of the Colony, is for the future, to be defrayed from the local Revenue, and it appears to them that the discontinuance of the abatements forms to pound for altering that opinion-
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The abatements here to fore received were not taken for the purpose of forming fund from which the Pensions would be payable, but as part of a general system under which all persons who were entitled to the benefit of the Act 4256. 4. C. 24
were liable to this deduction; and the Amocents deducted were properly carried to the credit of the Imperial Govemment, because that fovemment had to make Good much larger hems, in order to happly the deficiency of the Revenue of Hong Kong.
Heir fordships would remind Lord
Stanley that the apparent discrepancy
between
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