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administration, to tax the prosperity of
any manufacturing
concern in a lump
sum, without regard to detail, and the Governor, when he fixed $2000. as the
license fee,
must necessarily have been
in complete ignorance of the part Distilling has borne, or is likely in the future to bear, in the prosperity of the Company.
What figures, or what basis of calculation, His Excellency has been proceeding upon,
we do not pretend to
guess; whatever they were, they must have been untrustworthy, if they led to the result arrived at by the Executive.
As a matter of fact, the
history of the Distillery has,
already pointed out, been hitherto invariably disastrous, and it is beyond all question that the Distillation of Spirits, as carried on by this Company,
has never been conducted as an independent industry. It is only
Sugar Refiners, with a
constant supply of surplus molasses, which enables us, or makes it worth while,
to
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administration, to taxe the prosperity of
any manufacturing
concuMA
in a lump
sum, without regard to detail, and the Governor, when he fixed $2000. as the
license fee,
to
any
never
having applied to
source, for
other legitimate
information, touching the affairs of the bmpany.
must necessarily have been
in complete ignorance of the part 500 which Distilling has borne, or is likely in the future to bear, in the prosperity of the Company. figures,
What
or what basis of calculation, His Excellency has been proceeding
but
ou
we do not pretend to
guess, whatever they were, they must have been untrustworthy, if they led to the result arrived at by the Executive.
As a matter of fact, the
history of the Distillery has,
(L^
already
gures-
pointed out, been hitherto invariably disactions, and it is beyond all tion that the Distillation of Spirits, this bolong,
has
never
conducted as an independent in-
dustry. It is only
Sugar Refiners, with a
been profitably
position
as
constant sup
ply of surplus molasses, which mables us, or makes it worth while,
to
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