CO129-112 - Acting Governor Mercer - 1866 [3-4] — Page 121

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With regard to the Chinese Community while all complain of the loss of time

entailed

upon them by the system of

-payment at the Treasury there can be no doubt that a great number

great remember purposely abstain from payment and run the rise of the Brecedings of the Court in the hope of bring conlored in the List of Defaulters, or of bring out of reach when the Wariants

are issued.

The Ordinance of properly and.

rigorously

if

worsted would no doubt havi

gives very different results, but allowance

mud be made for the circumstance that

a

totally

introduced

new and untried system.

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