CO129-129 - Sir MacDonnell - 1868 [1-3] — Page 227

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ماز

say, if the bolony has

which uided by

a revenue

new taxation under

the Stamp Ordinance,

is more than

able to meet the necepary ordmary expenditive on fixed establishments,

provided all it's other Public

general

duties be

neglected;

mo

doubt

a small

apparent sumplus may

thus from time

to time be produced. but the object of

· Government, and the reasons

this bolony surely higher.

for founding

aim at somet

something

6. Neverthelifs, the pressing claims of

special emergencies much beyond the

are at this moment

margin of accumulation

which any neglect of it's general duties by the Government can effect.

Vide You? Y.

قادر

Serretary of State

NB 372! Para

I have

already reported to your

IN 1972. the 19617. Grace the necessity imposed

on some

parties, whether the Marine lot holders

ar on both jointly, of

on the Government,

repaining the main thoroughfare of the

is the

city, viz. the Traya, whose seaward wall only protection of the town against damage from the Sea.. this is not a question of making

Some

ordinary

CH

or even desirable improvement such the substitution.

of a roomy

مة

and well

constructed Hospital for a confined and

ill arranged building. It is a

question of the existence of the town as a

Port convenient resort, and it must now

of

be faced by the Executive, because the cast of the whole must be defrayed by

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