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and Expenditure of the years 1849

and 18907

to which is attached a similar Returnd embracing

the

&

6 years 1848, 1849 and 1886, being the three.

years of my administering the Governmen of this Island.

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The Comparative Statement of the Estimated and Actual Revenue and Expenditures for the

" year

ended 31 December, 1850, shows

a decrease in the Revenue of £ 563.3-7

and this is to be attributed to less Opiums

# Licenses hu

having been taken out in 1850 than

in the preceding year,

r,

lve

to loss on

the sale of

the prestige of Slott un ighings, and to Ghant Serang Licenses

£. 160.8.4.

#

3

281.5.0

by -72.16.7

Licenses having been discontinued me since the 30th of November last, the day

-day

on which they expired : the two first items

we're not within.

my.

own

control, but the latter I

have judged, desirable to descontinue, from

was

the

fact that the mercantile community dissatisfied with the working of the Ghaut: Srang system, and I myself

I myself deemed, it

objectionable; it is therefore in abeyance for the

present and will continue so until some more,

suitable

measure can

be substituted, for which

an Ordinance will be requisite. The greatest

" in our Revenue appears to be on the

falling off in

Fines and Fees of the Courts and amounts to

more than

orre

half of the whole. Contracting

the

the Revenue of 1850 with that of 1849,

is only £90. 6. 104, notwithstanding

drcreate is

the abolition of the Auction Du

Ghaut Serang Licenses

Daty

and

During the last year the bxpenditure

is shown to be less by L. 10,074

2.1 than the

Estimate, which decrease arises,

principally

£.4.060.6.0 from my not having commenced the proposed

a

Government House, and also from balance remaining

dus, for the supply of

water to the Government Offices, the Accounts for which have not yet been settlect with the Officers of the Royal Engineers. An

actical

saving of L. 960. 1.42 has been:

EB.

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