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Samoa Times and South Sea Advertiser, Volume I, Issue 71, 1 March 1890, Page 2

- " f m.'foi|eef|. »» AwlM. ' He Aft I ii ft ■HWwMII mil the people of BssEißk JsWsußMasjas under tiaWwmet beeo*. I^c/th* insures PlWSsmei'Umi wmv**.*IK*: ~

[to #**!••* to prjtoito is the evident too fife t*il»TAgWt r onwiwwi whol'y onerpseted With I tW «**%&» of hj CUlof Justice. of expvieneeand high legal (fanning, eve 4* not, want, nor can v/eaflbtd to pay. high salaries. Oar i Unit ittonae would be plunged in * t? woot ench * ruinous estab* *" lishamiitaa is apparently intended 1 for ike govotwonit of the group « Ae idea that wo should be aaked to pay the President of the Muni- « dpal Ooottefi tSOOO par year is ettaplyprapaateeooa. Added to this * all the salaries of the various office* required for customs, police, magistrates, and the many other necessery oficiiu* whoee salaries, if taken proportionately with .that .of the ', President of the Municipal Council, |. would oat up in themselves ail tho 1 taxes and custom duties of Samoa. I Even if we are not called upon to l pay UtewOteapeeeet for the lint year 1 it in a bad precedent to establish and would, at the end of the year, | whan the burden would be un our t own poor shoulders, be found diffi- » cult to remove. We feel confident i It wao never lobntompleted by the r asuirw pe/»jevetUw>*e island* with e*pen»te «hovetheir capacity to r meet Indeed/tbe smallpoll-tax of » W per bead on the natives BUffi- »] etatiyeoftrMfetssuchan intention. f Thia tax would realiße little more I than the amount of money inquired » to pay the two burh omoais named i in the Honty, and, as the natives are r jjgb.. l M9ps± 00-aumers of doUabki * J?'" 1 *** c**-* 1 P uu,ic works and I W'bflser expenses would be princii- fMV.borna by 200 or 300 foreign aanMeats in the islanii. Tho other na»Higip we referred to is the abI auediy low taxation—J per cent (if t tta igeras he oorreot)—on advav i mim fUAm thh tit decidedly dist nopintlunah to other duties, and I How,W.a|,the.matter of expenses are einoa>:»b adjustment, it U lervenUy to bo hepecl that they will be kept theae wo oongratoiaie mmiot)B Jkjtfei Tsmlaieaui