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for presuming to point out that all the other evidences I have now been compelled

to quote, were

for

come considerable

time in the Colonial Office before your Despatch N. 42 of the 8th of April

was

signed; and that I am

certainly not responsible for the misconception as to the basis of my proposed reduction of taxation alluded to in paragraphs 3 and 4 of your Duratch

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have dweit

upon

this at some

length, for I should be but little

worthy of the confidence of Her Majesty's Government

ay

Colonial Administrator,

as far as financial matters are ___

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concerned, if I could have been quilty of

to propose reduction

Lo

grave

mistake

A

of

taxation based

balances in hand,

and expecially

balances which it is

implied were in a

great

composed of sume voted In Public works but not expensted.

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It is now ten or eleven

Mears since Lord Granville

enough to

Convey

to

was good

me the

acknowledgments of Iter Majesty's Government for the financial

measures

I had adopted in another

Clorry in the Thina Lene by which the recepity of voting a Grant in

"aid An

from Imperial Funds for that

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