CO129-143 - Sir MacDonnell - 1870 [1-2] — Page 418

4.

the enclosed Extracts from

the Minutes of the Executive Council will explain to Your Lordship the indeavours of this Vovernment to follow precisely the plan laid clown for

the licenses. It was,

granting

in the

first place inquisite to fix the total

amount

4 of fees at a sum which, while

sufficiently

remunerative to induce

persons to tender, might get be high enough to compel strict adherence to the Putes and Regulations macte. by myself in Council. Much previous ingairy suggested that the annual fee should be fixed at about $160,000, and ultimately the notice. for Tender.

s

avad

1. ...

• fixed by the

Enclosure St. 1.

Vicle Secretary of th

to Bover not 159 of 7th Cctober, 1869.

714 8704-09.

416

Council ut $13,340. per month.

Persons representing six

4.

مجھ

Companies sent in their momness by

the time mentioned in the Government

Actification, and the Council enceting.

doon

afterwards took into consideration the

propriety of admitting into the computition,

all

کار کی مرو سمجھے

any of those Lend

Fendering.

For masons

recorded three out of the six were

excluded, and the lot's were drawn

for the remaining, Merce in

presence of myself the Council - and the parties immictiately interested. Ag-Grap-Ting.

whose

WAT

first taken from

The Ballot box, was declared to be

the successful competitor.

5.

Ag. Isap - Ting being before