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10.
In
my Dispatch 1.21. of the 22?
of February 1879, having mentioned
that I should we introduce
any
Adinance
on relieving the native shipping of
tax or diminishing in any other way
the income
7
the Colorry
LA
settled
law, without placing my proposals before you and receiving your instructions on the subject, I reported that I had acted on the unanimous recommendation of the Executive Council and made
some small reductions in the municipal rates in the town
of
Victoria, reductions which the Acting Auditor heneral had stated
would not cause
any appreciable
falling off in the total rates collected in 1879
with 1878.
as compared
the following is
extract from the minutes
of the proceedings of the Executive Council (25th December 1878) referred to in caragrapú 3 of that despatch_
"It is Excellency states that this meeting
had been convened
to consider at what rate to fix the apepment for the Police, Lighting, Water, and Fire
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