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and this regulation involves Colonial Expenditure on the

Police and Harbour Department employes which the fees are

intended to defray.

5.

The fees are never remitted in the

case of boats employed by Contractors to the Colonial

Government, e.g. the Conservancy and Sanitary Contractors,

although being paid to the General Revenue one-fifth of

their amount is credited to the Imperial Government.

They

were not remitted in the case of the Extensive Praya Recla-

Low

-mation Works in which this Government were largely in-

-terested and in this case also the Imperial Government

received their proportion of the payments.

6.

The Contractors for the Admiralty

Extension Works had no reason to believe when they entered

into their contract that they would be treated differently

to any other Government Contractors, and it cannot be as-

-sumed that they based their contract on the supposition

that the regulation of their boats should not be defrayed

by the levying of the same fees as are paid by other Con-

-tractors.

The refunding of the fees would

appear therefore to benefit the Contractors and not the

Admiralty at the expense of the Colony, which in matters of

Imperial