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as in the case of the

probably be the same difficulty land police, of sequin when the water police were

distinguishing Naging

specially

employed to prevent crime from that ordinary avocations of collecting harbour duties de, fit would probably be the simplest remedy to sanction an arbitrary bat lump sum to the Harbourmaster as to the

Land Police

If it is not intended that there with would be manned at the cost of the special fund, it should be printed out that the item $ 8,543, for 1868 was Sanctioned. I no under the misapprehension that it was for the Construction of the vessels, & not for the wages of

the crew

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Sir R. M's present plan is to charge to special Fund

Expenditure as much of the Harbourmaster's far as he can.

can Specia then to remit the fees which the Harbourmaster pays, collects for inspection &c; and duly to reimburse the Colony for the loss of the revenues caused by this Remittance of fees:

With reference to the expenditure by the Crown agents

the results more accurate accounts are desirable as it is impossible to give otherwise, what is the balance which is to be funded, which should be separated from the Colonial assets, instead of the debt

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of the Colony to the Special Fund being

charged as a liability. Under the present circumstances, the balance, whatever it is, is deposited with the ordinary funds of the Colony in the bank, & the interest on it goes to the Ordinary Revenue - It is noticeable how the ordinary police expenditure has grown, since the idea of all surplus expenditure being special has been acted on: for

this surplus the 11th months of 1869 it appears in the old account as $ 17,692 : in the new account it is estimated for the 12 months at $70,000, showing.

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this last point said, m. 3 lice has now twice suggested, & he deserves a definite Answer, as no allusion has been made in the CO. dispatches on the subject. If these Harbour fees be regarded

as a tax on vice & crime, the substitution for them of a similar tax, the collection of which was much less costly & more convenient, would have much to be said for it

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standach

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that the support the ordinary expenditure of the Colony,

was a very low one.

The first paragraph on page 2 of Sir R. M's financial statement contains an extraordinary misstatement of facts: he calls "$317807 " the total receipts of the Licenses

From September 1867 to the end of this year?