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was made on the 11th of and was laid before

Novermber 1878

my

you

in

Bupatid N 112 of the 13th of November 1875.

Its receipt at the Colonial Office n the 193

duly acknowledged

Brot a

Statement

of December 1878 was in Mt. Herbert's Despatch of the 2nd

January 1879.

In that speech not one word is said about the

balances in hand. It is true that I put before the Legislative Conncil,

for their consideration, a moderate

sopral as to a possible reduction taxation, the abandonment of the sevenne ! about $20,000 a year) we derive from laxes on native

shipping, - and I mentioned that

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the Governo in Council would have

to consider, in the

in accordance with the annual

following mouth

practice, whether

some reduction

in the percentage of the municipal

But

rates might not be made. "those comparatively trifling reductions

taxation were

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upon

the

distinctly based

prosperous state of the

Colonial Revenue, and expecially

upon the confident expectation I was able to express

as to obtaining larger revere from the Opine Farm.

6. Again in the following mouth when the appropriation Ordinance