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term expires and the time

for reletting the~ farm, it will realise

comes

more

than he

considerably pays for it. But as it is,

a sum

the farm brings in annually of $340,000, or about one-sixth of the whole of the general revenue. The abolition of the farm would unquestionably

occasion an immediate and :considerable loss of revenue,

and it would almost certa for reasons that I shall

"certainly,

presently

presently mention, be followed at an early date by the told extinction of the revenue derived from opium. This

would necessitate a revision

of the scheme

of

local

taxation, and in all

probability the imposition

of import duties, a measure that would be intensely unpopular

in the Colony

and would, in the opinion of many, be highly

detrimental to the commercial

prosperity

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