The Archive · 1874

CONSEIL D'ADMINISTRATION MUNICIPALE DE LA CONCESSION FRANGAISE

Résumé des deliberations clu Conseil and as you add that your Board do not ai the discontinuance of an equal division of ground for this Council disputing their liability for an equal share of, the cost of construction of and repairs to bridges over the Yang-king Pang Creek, 1 am directed to draw your attention to the analogy which this Council conceive exists between the two cases.

In point of fact, the ground upon which your Council refuse to contribute an equal share of the tax on wheelbarrows, is the disproportion between the amount of tax: collected on this side and that collected in your Settlement, and also the difference between the extent of the streets on the south Nido of the Yang king-pang as compared with those on the north side of the Creek.

This Council, on their part, support their argument for no longer continuing to bear half share of maintenance of bridges spanning

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