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TABLE III.
Comparison between the sources of revenue of 1897 and 1926.
Heads of Revenue
Revenue for 1926.
Revenue for 1897.
1. LIGHT DUES.
110,544
114.176
Do. Special Assessment, Ord. No. 10
of 1899
127,655
2. LICENCES AND INTERNAL REVENUE
NOT OTHERWISE SPECIFIED :-
Arms Licences
2,400
Assessed Taxes
3,636,668
430 429,137
Auctioneers' Licences
3,000
1,800
Billiard Table and Bowling Alley Licences...
350
900
Boarding-house Licences
75
206
Boat Licences
115,406
6,971
Cargo Boat Licence
11,448
Carriage, Chair &c. Licences
240,156
43.324
Chinese Boarding-house Licences
16,721
Chinese Passenger Ship Licences
1,875
380
Chinese Undertakers' Licences
860
200
Companies Local Registers Licences
1,824
2.863
Dangerous Goods Licences
2,508
505
Dog Licences
14,862
2.483
Emigration Passage Brokers' Licences
1,200
1.000
Ferry Licences, N.T.
9
Fines
134,169
31.835
Fishing Stake & Station Licences
1,189
Fishing Licences
70
Forestry Licences,
N.T.
4,889
Forfeitures
87.749
4,357
Game Licences
3,430
120
Hawkers' Licences
81,206
6,835
Junk Licences
52,103
29.06-1
Kowloon (West Ferry Licences)
247,130
Kowloon (East Ferry Licences)
16,120
Liquor Duties
1,186,313
Liquor Licences
393,898
67,187
Marine Store Dealers' Licences
10,080
5,280
Marriage Licences
820
482
Money Changers' Licences
9,960
550
Opium Monopoly
2,831,305
Pawnbrokers' Licences
132,713
286,000 39,000
Permits to cut Earth and Stone, N.T.
1,859
Pharmacy and Poison Licences
Pilots' Licences
170 150
Carried forward
9,471,436
1,086,433