1929 — Page 64

COMPARATIVE YEARLY STATEMENT OF THE REVENUE

Specify each separate Tax or Duty according to the classification employed in the Estimates. | Amount collected in 1928. | Amount collected in 1929. | Increase. | Decrease. | Cause of Increase or Decrease.

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CLASS I. | | | | |

1. LIGHT DUES | $138,550.02 | $144,961.48 | $6,411.46 | | Do.

Special Assessment, Ord. No. 10 of 1899 | $165,292.04 | $174,165.18 | $8,873.14 | |

2. LICENCES AND INTERNAL REVENUE NOT OTHERWISE SPECIFIED. | | | | |

Arms Licences | $2,410.00 | $2,410.00 | | |

Assessed Taxes | $3,754,264.78 | $3,997,112.60 | $242,847.82 | | Growth of Colony

Auctioneers' Licences | $2,400.00 | $2,400.00 | | |

Boat Licences | $115,497.65 | $116,604.00 | $1,106.35 | |

Carriage, Chair, &c. Licences | $238,399.14 | $261,747.33 | $23,348.19 | | Increased Motor Traffic

Chinese Boarding-house Licences | $18,072.00 | $15,052.00 | | $3,020.00 | Decrease

Chinese Passenger Ship Licences | $1,740.00 | $1,545.00 | | $195.00 |

Chinese Undertakers' Licences | $960.00 | $1,020.00 | $60.00 | |

Companies Local Registers Licences | $2,254.72 | $2,238.83 | | $15.89 |

Dangerous Goods Licences | $2,572.00 | $2,570.00 | | $2.00 |

Log Licences | $11,835.00 | $11,109.00 | | $726.00 |

Emigration Passage Brokers' Licences | $1,200.00 | $1,200.00 | | |

Ferry Licences, N.T. | $400.00 | $2,400.00 | $2,000.00 | |

Fines | $130,730.43 | $126,309.24 | | $4,421.19 |

Fishing Stake & Station Licences | $1,183.10 | $1,093.10 | | $90.00 |

Forestry Licences, N.T. | $8,734.92 | $5,232.03 | | $3,502.89 |

Forfeitures | $50,762.04 | $26,017.19 | | $24,744.85 |

Game Licences | | | | |

Hawkers' Licences | $102,289.00 | $119,256.00 | $16,967.00 | |

Junk Licences | $49,953.75 | $49,728.50 | | $225.25 |

Kowloon (West) Ferry Licences | $267,600.00 | $287,600.00 | $20,000.00 | |

Kowloon (East) Ferry Licences | $8,160.00 | $8,160.00 | | |

Carried forward | $5,073,680.59 | $5,342,862.88 | $315,302.01 | $46,119.72 |

Note: OCR artifacts (e.g., "CALSS", "Orl.", "kedad", "Liconces", "Li-", stray "I", "A", "4", "***") have been corrected. "Do." = Ditto. Column alignment reconstructed from context. The "Carried forward" totals differ slightly from the OCR's "$5,842,862.88" and "$809,221,97" — the proofread figures reflect the sum of the listed items above.