Municipal Office 
Singapore, 27th. September 1904 
Sir, 
I have the honour to acknowledge’ the receipt of your 
letter Muni. 8288 / 04 of the 2nd. instant enquiring on what 
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principle the Municipal Commissioners contemplate such a 
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charge as $35 a month to cover the cost of the extension of 
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the water main in Napier & Cluny Hoads and to state that the 
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Botanic Cardens, which the extension of the main is intended 
to serve,are outside the area within which the Municipal 
Commissioner's are empowered to levy a water rate as defined 
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in Section 87 (6) of the Ordinance* The Commissioners have 
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no present intention of extending the main in the direction' 
of the Botanic Cardens and considered t&at thejr should be 
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recouped for their expenditure in laying a further length of 
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pipe at this end of the town vdien the need for the extension 
of the water supply' in other parts is more pressing. . 
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The action of the Commissioners in asking for. a. special 
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payment to cover part of the expenditure involved in laying 
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the main is not peculiar to this case but is the principle 
usually observed in dealing with all applications for a 
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water supply in districts vrhere in consequence of more ur¬ 
gent demands Elsewhere mains would not be laid for some time 
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to come. Should the main laid as far as the Botanic Cardens 
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become a source of additiona.1 revenue or should, it be fur- 
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ther extended to meet the requirements of the neighbourhood 
the contribution now anked for from Government would be 
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modified. 
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3* I may also remark that the rate which it is now 
proposed to charge for water to the Botanic Cardens is 20 
cents per 1,000 gallons, the rate at which it is supplied to 
Government buildings and not at 5o cents per 1,000 gailons,. 
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the rate fixed in the Schedule of Rates for the private 
-ly of water by meter to Recreation Grounds* 
supp- 
