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$

I consider recoverable, and the remain=

·

to write.

ing $6.93 I request authority off as leases have been issued in res=

premises or the owners.

pect of the premises

owners having

left the Colony.

Statement Nr 6

This statement is a Balance Sheet

showing a summary of the foregoing, which I submit for the approval of dis

Excellency the Governor.

If it is considered.

neassary

to

obtain the approval of the Secretary of State, I submit that general authority

should be obtained to deal with the arrears of this nature in future. The condition of the Squatters is euch as to render it practically impossible to avoid occasionally having debts it is impossible to recover.

Stringent measures have been

taken during recent years

to reduce to

a minimum such debts, and it is now

generally only Prose who left the Colony

early in the

year or whose houses have been pulled down and the tenants e-

victed by order of remain in default.

Horible Colonial Secretary.

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the

Magistrate that

I have 7o. St. Francis A. Cooper,

Director of Public Works.

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