Speech of the Hon. A. M. Ross, Treasurer of the Province of Ontario, Delivered on the 13th February, 1890, in the Legislative Assembly of Ontario, on ... Into Committee of Supply (Classic Reprint)

Name: Speech of the Hon. A. M. Ross, Treasurer of the Province of Ontario, Delivered on the 13th February, 1890, in the Legislative Assembly of Ontario, on ... Into Committee of Supply (Classic Reprint)
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By Ross, Alexander McLagan

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Excerpt from Speech of the Hon. A. M. Ross, Treasurer of the Province of Ontario, Delivered on the 13th February, 1890, in the Legislative Assembly of Ontario, on Moving the House Into Committee of Supply<br/><br/>The next item is Crown Lands Revenue, which is one of the most important sources of our revenue. Our estimate was our receipts, or there has been an excess of receipts over the estimate of In 1884, Mr. Speaker, the first year I assumed the duties of financial o Icer of the Government, I undertook to meet the cry that our Crown Lands revenue was gradually diminishing, and that we should soon be brought face to face with direct taxation. At that time I gave figures for eleven years, shewing what the actual revenue from Crown Lands had been, and I shewed that the receipts for the year previous (1883) had been or only a few dollars less than the average for the eleven years, and I proved from the figures then given that our revenue was not diminishing, and that we might reasonably look forward to an equal permanent revenue from that source. Now the average for those eleven years was It might be interesting, Mr. Speaker, to continue that table, and bring these figures down to the present time, and see what the receipts from Crown Lands have been since that time.

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Languages:: Published: English , Original: English
Number of Pages:: 60
Publisher:: Forgotten Books
Publication Date:: 2017-11-11
Weight:: 240 g

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