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ANNEXE VII, (Cont.)
TABLE II.
SHOWING NUMBER OF SMOKERS HOLDING “SPECIAL·LIORNSES " (HOMESMOKERS) IN THE YEAR 2ata (ibid dď);
ANNEXE Vili.
TABLE SHOWING TOTAL REVENUE FROM ALL SOURCES, REVENUE FROM OPIUM, AND QUANTITIES OF OPIUM SOLD, FROM 1901-02 TO 1919-20.
Price to the consumer in ticals per tamlungs tamlung, Vide
sold
Year
Total Revenue
Revenue Trumm opium
Percentage of opium revenue Lo total
revenue
Number of
Note 1 below
Remarks
121
Holders of Special Smoking Licenses
Province
יזי
Total number
Class I
Class II
B.E. 2444 (1901-02)
BE. 2445 (1902-03)
Ticals 36,157,963 39,152,125
5,072,705.00
14,02
7,080,637.00
18.08
Krung Deb
B.E. 2446 (1903-04)
43,458,817
6,972,780.10
16 04
!
Farming system.
do.
do.
do.
593
16
+
Ayuthia
233
29
Rajburi
75
5
BE. 2447 (1904-05) || 46,046,404 B.E. 2448 (1906-06) 51,657.539 B.E. 2449 (1906-07)
6,403,003 00
13.90
10,260,961.00
19 86
7,693,669.37
Nakorn Chaisri
57,014,805
15.55
65
2
Nakorn Sawan
21
15
+
Pitsanuloke
+
132
85
Nakorn Rajasima
39
9
Prachinburi
109
88
Surst
67
36
Nakorn Sritamarat
23
4
B.E. 2450 (1907-08) B.E. 2451 (1908-09) B.E. 2452 (1939-10) B.E. 2453 (1910 11) B.E. 2454 (1911-12) B.E. 2455 (1912-13) B.E. 3456 (1913-14)
Patani
97
7
B.E. 2457 (1914-15)
Udorn
158
178 י י
B.E. 2458 (1915-16)
Ubon
02
220
1,173,386.32 55,826,532 9,652,532,00 60,859.508 14,514,453.04 11,253,960.49 63,079,401 63,509,181 11,517,213.06 61,493,9.8 11,697,473.48 66,877,377 14,162,728.50 74,399,682 14,942,798.64 73,903,669 71,298,015 B.E. 2159 (1916-17) | 82,911,149
265,061
17.29 23.85
17.95 2,076,797 18.14 1,794,561 19.02 1,884,735 1,981,155 21.18 20.09 2,037,906
1,609,871
| 2,102,774
8
8
10
10
do. Vide also
Note 2 below.
Vide Note 3 below.
In this and the previous
year the Province of Puket was still farmed. The whole country under Government con- trol from this year on- wards. Vide Note 4 below.
12
Roi Ech
BE. 2460 (1917-18)
108
212
Maharat
02
269
86,494,066 93,109,470 B.E. 2461 (1918-19) B.E. 2462 (1919-20) | 96,066,931
16,190,101.17 16,560,227.02 19,342,187.83 21,179,720.78 21,444,478.00 23,221,669.38
21.91
1,907,102
12
21.42
1,813,944
13
23 33
1,905,733
13
24.49
22 93
24 17
2,046,120 1,859,886 1,900,831
16
16
15
Sub-Farmers eliminated from this year.
Bayap
20
112
Puket
574
NOTE 1.
244
Chantaburi
57
6
NOTE 2.
Nors 3.
2,671
1,552
4,123
NOTE 4.
NOTE. For difference between Class I and II, vide Ministerial Regulations. Clause 3. It will be seen that the total number of home smokers represents only about 2% of the totul estimated number of smokers viz., 200,000.
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The price of opium to the consumer is that current in the Inner Provinces, where the greater portion of consumption takes place. The outer and Goast Provinces have slightly lower rates. The increase of revenue was due to competition among the bidders, resulting in the collapse of the Farm in the following year, as explained in para. 10 of the Memorandam. The farm was taken over by the Government in January 1907. The two figures in column 3 thus represent the revenue paid by the farmer, and collected by the Government, respectively. In this year (the first one in which Government control was exercised throughout the country), the system was adopted of including the cost of the raw opium on both the revenue and Thus the total revenue of the year and the revenue from expenditure sides of the account. opium, both included the sum of Tes. 1,785,042, the cost of the raw drug. In subsequent years in order to avoid undue inflation of the accounts (and also fluctuations due to variations in the price of raw opium), the amount spent on the latter was deducted from the expenditure as well as the receipt side-the opium revenue thus being shown net, except for actual administrative expenses. If this sum of Tes. 1,785,012 be deducted from columns 2 and 3, the resulting net figures will be Tcs. 59,074,466 and Tes. 12,729,412, respectively and the percentage of opium revenue will be 21.5.
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