, 1872-03-27

upou ehdIHltlaCIOH OIL Clls case, mat each
comptroller only serves 6 months in every
year consequently, that one man in each
town would be sufficient for the duty.
These, however, receive 6 months wages
every year for doing nothing while the
poor porter cannot earn a days sustenance
by hard work, without paying a quarters
license in advance hence, the one is paid
for doing nothing one half of the year,
while the other is taxed for working all the
year round, and, were the latter to attempt
to work without his badge, he would run
the risk of fine or imprisonment as q re-
ward for his industry.
But says His ExcelEency Governor Billie,
"as long as pensions will come when you
cut away the offices, it will be better to
work with the present organisation until
vacancies occur"
Pensions, however, are rated according
to the term of service and only those Off
Gals are entitled to them who have Royal
appointments.
To "cut away two of these consumers
Of public means might result in pensioning
them but as they have no legal right to
the proportion stipulated for Royalty APP
pointed officials, a considerable saving could
be effected at once in this direction. OF
the four men now filling the places Of
comptrollers, none has been in the Office
90 years, consequently, none can claim . 10,
or the one half of his present salary as pen
sion, ever if he had a Royal appointment.
The salary of one of them therefore, would
be more than enough to pension two, and
there would be a clear saving of more than
q $1,000 effected in this department, at
once, and many thousands, no doubt, be-
fore vacancies occur"
Again the empIoyments for the work
ing class in the towns, offer no great varie-
ty for one person ls often obliged to re-
sort, yea, almost every day of his life, to
various modes so as to obtain enough for
himself and family. Females, for instance,
find it difficult to obtain any other employ
ment than cooking, washing, house-service,
and some other simple drudgery +; and even
of these sorts of employments, there is not
enough to engage the number Of idle
hands.
Now and again, however, an opportunity
offers for these to get a few extra cents by
jobbing, in carrying lumber for the mer-
chants from the wharves to their store
houses. But here comes the monstrous
8th Ordinance of the 18th April 1849, and
demands 25 cents for a months license to
work, and that miserable mother, who,
perhaps, not having a cent that day, grasp
at the opportunity of making II cents; but
is unable to improve it unless she can pay
% cents for the license in advance; and,
after all, if she is successful enough to Dor
row as much as to pay this tax, she may
only get one days work.-Can any one
who thinks at all, not see that the condi-
ton of this class in the towns is made in
tolerably oppressive by this law.
Another question asked by H. re-
fers to the tax-paying fisherman" This
class of taxpayers procure their subsistence
very precariously and unless they are able
to conduct it on a large scale-which is an
extremely rare case here-can hardly make
out to live.
It is a great struggle for such a man to
raise the means to buy a boat, and when
he does do so, it is doubly hard for him to
be taxed for becoming the proprietor of SO
small ar item of property, when many,
very many, who enjoy their l~uxuries at