303
assessment
occasion
and that I was upon every informed by the Acting Colonial Secretary that nothing could be done till the Valuators had sent in their Tables.
16.
The Rates for 1864 were not therefore Assessed by the Acting Governor in Council till the 20th of February in that year when they were notified to the Public in Gazette No 8 of that month; the Rates being made payable for the first quarter between the 22nd February and the 5th of March - there being only thirteen days - inclusive of Sundays - allowed the Treasury to have Forms printed to recast the whole of the Rates for 1864 - to prepare and serve 4,900 Notices and to fill up 4,900 Receipts and to secure one quarter's Revenue. A gigantic task, more especially where the numerical insufficiency of the Staff of the Treasury was entirely comprised of Young Portuguese.
17.
It was not therefore till the latter end of March (1864) that notices could be served for the quarter ending in that Month.
18.
Thus the Treasury was unavoidably thrown one quarter in arrear of the work required from that Department in 1864.
19.
It was in that year 1864 that, to use the words of the Commissioners: "The Colonial Treasurer represented
303
assessment
occasion
and that I was upon every informed by the Acting Colonieb
Secretary that nothing could be done litt
the Valuators had sent in their Fables.
16.
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The Rates for 1864 were not therefore Assesed by the Acting Governor in Cameil till the 20th of Fehmary in that year when they were notified to the Public Gazette No 8 of that month; the hates being made payable for the first quarter between the 22nd February and the 5th of March - there being only. thirteen days - inclusive of sundays - allowed the Treasury to have Forms printed to recast the whole of the Rates
for
1804-
to prepare and serve 4 goo
Notices and to fill up 4,900 Recripts
and to secure one
Ӣ
quarter's Revenne. gigantic task, more especially ov where the numerical insufficiency of
the Staff of the Treasury suns entirely comprcsed of Yoving Portuguese.
17.
was not therefore till the latter
end of March (1864) that notices could
be served
Month.
18.
for the quarter ending in that
Thus the Treasury was unavoidably
thrown one
quarter in arrear of the work
required from that Department in
19
It was in that
words of the
the
year
1864
that to use
Commissioners:
"The Colmial Treasurer represented
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