1841-1886
447
3.
The Revenue for 1875 is, safely estimated at $840,000, and that is $35,000 in excess of the original estimate for the next year.
In the revenue is estimated at $834,476, and this decrease is calculated upon probable reductions in regard chiefly to the Opium Monopoly, Spirit Licenses, and receipt under the Contagious Diseases Ordinance. Of these it is only necessary I should refer to the first. I recall to mind that the Opium Monopoly has been held on a three-years lease with an annually increasing payment.