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5. In connection with the question of interest it would uppear that the financial. difficulties by which payments of the Military Contribution were interupted

an account

from

arose ham causes

beyond the control of

viz

left them, for

engaged

except to sanction it was the Meint Staff had been the Machinery purchased before any reference

was made to the bouncil.

and

le. Under these circumstances I had not

expected that

Heer

on mature consideration

Majesty's Government would have exacted payment, not merely of accumulated before fresh sauces of

arrears

the Executive. In fact it was in.

who

part

Caused by the creditor now claims the Imperial levemment, prefsing forward and sanctioning such a large Castly undertaking as that of the Mint. Sir

and

Hercules Rubinson the then Governor declined to advocate the latter Speculation contemporaneously with such a benthen as the Military Contribution, and it

Legislative bancil

would seem that the

gave it no sanction till nothing else

taxation could be rendered available-

but would also call for payment of

those arrears with interest, Had there

been

or reluctance

any obstructiveness the part of the balony to maké

good

liabilities as soon as it could make

oru

its

the necessary anangements for doing I would not have

say

So

a word to