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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.
イー
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.