CO129-184 - Governor Hennessy - 1879 [1-5] — Page 372

CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案 All

are now being disposed of

2. I have received with

I will not enter upon the Discupion of your

Satisfaction your explanation financial poling in

that your proposals for

reduction

q

taxation were

founded not repen

^

the

amount of balances in hand,

as I had infured from a comparison of such papers

as

you

had furnished me

with, but up on the clasticity

ир of certain Gauches

colonial roame

?

the

At the same time I obsave

that the actual revance for

1878

was less than had

other Colonies: hut

been estimated I also less

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than the actual revenue

for 1877; While the actual

revenue for 1879 is of course

at present only matter for conjecture, though it will be considerably

added to

by the large increase in the

think which has been obtained

for the opicem form.

I difen Any fritten remarks for the finances of

the colong

Idefa fending consideration

of the estimates for 79 have now which you

force cucted

to me

MIH B

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