on the whole of above £4,000!
The amount of £ 18.000 for
Crown Leases may
o
be considered as
some
certain, and independent of s Lots of which the terms have not been
fulfilled, and which will therefore
be put up again
to sale.
Proposals have been made to Government for some Lands susceptible of cultivation, the Leases of which it is intended shortly to put up to sale for the prescribed period of twenty one
The total amount of such
years. ground is so limited,
is so limited in this mountainous
(
island, that the Income from this source must of necessity be limited.
The three Markets now established at Victoria, yield about £1,650 per
annum:
·
The Opium Farm, which
by
*Y
by the former Report was only $1775 now yields at the rate. £4,275 per
annum.
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of
The Stone Quarries and Salt License have both increased, the
former from £166 to Lyou, the latter from £146 to £306.
I anticipate a considerable increase in the produce of the License for the retail of Spirituous and Fermented Liquors, which has been
raised
1 from 50 to 100 Dollars.
The different taxes hitherto imposed have been levied at little or no expense; the charges of Custom house have been avoided; and no encroachment whatever has been
a
yet made on the perfect freedom of the Port . A total produce of £27,000 is
therefore not altogether
unfavourable