30
31
494
for 1893 shews a decrease of ~ $110,537 as compared with the
amount of probable revenue,
as now
current
estimated, for
the-
This decrease is
year . almost entirely accounted for under two heads, vir: the
opium monopoly, and assessed taxes (including water rate). The
The opium farm produced in the first half of the current
year $237,500,
owing to recovery of arrears on 1891, and to the larger
instalments
instalments in January and
February, the last two months
the old farm,
of
and
for 1892
it is now estimated to realize
$407.900: in 1893 it cannot
produce
~
more than #340,800,
a decrease of $67,100. Assessed taxes figure for $399.766 in the revised estimate for 1892,
and water for $73,580, totalling $473,346 : for 1893 I have not thought it prudent to assume higher total than #441,000, or a decrease of $32,346 on the
a
probable