(C3)
COMPARATIVE YEARLY STATEMENT of the REVENUE,—Continued.
Specify each separate Tax or Duty according to the classification employed in the Estimates.
Amount collected in 1915.
Amount
Cause of Increase
collected in Increase.
1916.
Decrease.
or Decrease.
Brought forward..........
LICENCES AND INTERNAL REVENUE NOT OTHERWISE SPECIFIED,-Continued.
Mining Licences, N.T.,..........................
Money Changers' Licences,
C.
$ C.
C.
C.
3,321,600.84|3,501,852,89
238,856.36
58,604.31
403.42
1,255.48
852.06
More licences.
50 00
11,940.00 11,990.00
4,701,877.825,811,110.15 |1,109,232.33
Opium Monopoly,
Increase in price of prepared opiuma,
Pawnbrokers' Licences.......
112,427.10 106,925.00
5,502.10 Fewer licences.
Permits to cut Earth and Stone,
New Territories..............
231.50
239.00
7.50
Pharmacy and Poison Ordinance
Liccuces,.
10.00
360.00
350,00
New licence fees.
Pilots' Licences,..
70.00
130.00
60.00
Prospecting Licences, N.T.,
+
Special Food Licences,
1,991.25
Stamp Duties,......
1,080,933.98 | 1,065,946,79
Steam-Launch Licences,
Theatrical Licences,
Tobacco Duties,
Water-Wheel Licences,
6,576 88
585.63
14987.19 More probates.
7,389,25
7,501,00
111.75
1,921.00 ! 2,544.00
623.00
211,181.74
211,181.74
!
New item.
47.00!
45.00
2.00
1. FEES OF COURTOR OFFICE,
PAYMENTS FOR SPECIFIC
PURPOSES, AND REIMBUR-
SEMENTS IN AID:~
Ambulance and Cremation Fees,
481.50
545.00
63.50
Analyses,
20,761.00
19,429,50
1,334.50
Bills of Health,
7,290,00
Births and Deaths Registration,
1,357.80
8,284.80,
1.143.10
994.80
85.60
Cemetery Fees,........
651,23
606,10
45.13
Certificates to Chinese entering
America,
300.00
875,00
575.00
Chemists and Druggists Regis-
tration,..
50,00
I
50.00
China Companies Fees,
44,819.67
44,819.67
New item.
Chinese Cemetery Fees,
2,914.00
3,383,00
469.00
G
Companies Registration,
12,354.30
8,715.40
3,638.90
Custodian's Fees,
4,855.47
4,855.47
Contribution from Chinese Dis-
pensaries, &c.,
240.00
---
New item.
240.00
{Credited
to
penditure vote.
ΟΙ
Contribution from Wei-bai-wei
Government for Clerical As- sistance,
450.00
Carried forward,... 9,290,695.99 10,819,615.27 1,613,773.41
450.00
Do.
84,854.13
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