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year,

and was

of

course the basis the

Collection

of

the Rates

fr

for

this and the

-following quarte, but no attempt appears

to have been made to ascertain whether the

Occupiers of tenements during those ~

we're the same persons

quarters

as those in occupation at the date of the Assessment

Book, and thus to obtain the information

which formaly during the door to door

able

System of collection, the Collector uns -from personal observation to supply to his a chief as to the

ocenpanty or otherwise of the

rated tenements.

On the 2nd of July the Acting

lotenial Scoretary transmitted dircetions

:

in writing that the Rates quarter should be collected

for

) on or

the third

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