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I established last only for the isle of Stamps, and the prosecutions I have ordered under the Irbinance, have tended to increase
Monthly
revenue
I now endre
for your Lordship's information
the "Collector's Return, buted 1th
December, chewing that
MA
to
the 30th of November 1877 we Stained $109.537.84 from the
Stamp Ordinance as
against
$95,880.52 in the corresponding
seriva
2.
of the Bear 1876.
From the Inclosures in
Sir Arthur Kennedy's despatch A. 200 of 21¢t November 1876, it
will be
teen
that be estimateń
the total Stamp revenue for the
twelve months of 1877 at $100,000. As the first eleven months have given $9,537 in excess of this,
it is probable the Stamp Reverme collected up to the end of 1877 will be about $25,000 the year's estimate
Der
I have the hover to be,
My Lord.
Your Ertchip's Most Obedient Stumble Sewant,