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of the taxpayers of this country.

7. Her Majesty's Government, al-

though hitherto adhering to the principle

that the contribution, whatever its

amount, should be fixed for the time

never

being in sterling, have lost sight of

the fact that it could

noty

consistently

with the efficient administration of

Civil affairs, exceed a certain per-

centage of revenue, and that if at any

time through a diminution of receipts

value

or a fall in the exchange of silver,

the percentage assumed undue proportions,

then a case for the revision of the

sterling demand would arise; but as a

matter of fact during the five years

averag 1890-1894, the average porcentre of the

military contribution,

Havesting

total military expenditure/of the Celery

(watchr-included-

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