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Si. D. Rogers 5 Nov bb
Might is meeting Doppereiti on Endis be expected the Governor you very popular as regards the Stamp Tax the case This speech the composition ally put of Sie & In Songtong has hitherto been so free from indirect Taxation that the community objects to any other mode & propose additional direct Taxes other class if ridiculous - I do not see why then Merchants should not pay
"The threatened abandonment for the immense advantages More heavily than the facilities which they have in Herz. they possess of making profits by
If the Secretary approves Whe Souls be instructed to provide Stamps. Sovereign proposals The Treasurer might be asked for rules as to collection etc.
has formed a
W. R Extraple the appone the Ordinance with that by But his 224772 rcodicions its effect in the the Remncial in inth of HK.
Thave carefully considered the objections made by the memorialist and Sir R. McDonnell's reply to them. be added that I believe that the objections expressed to the Stamp Act do not proceed from any captious spirit of opposition but from a mere apprehension of the mode in which it is proposed to raise the necessary amount and to the future Effects upon the financial Legislation of the Colony. But that I do not doubt that he is correct in the view he might.
HongKong 10 Sept 1861
Dir Richard Graves MacDonnell to Right Honorable Earl of Carnarvon.
Ordinance No 12 of 1866. For imposing Stamp duties-
Necessity for Memorial and protest against reply of Governor : ripel on the details of Miand Score) #ha request permission to poor acade, that preats obliged to then it Cacere any report instructions denied him the permis. Law.
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