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PUBLIC RECORD OFFICE, LONDON|

The receipt from Government.

now be estimated

Lands, which may to afford an income of about £12,000, cannot be expected rapidly to increase, as most of the available spots at present in demand have been disposed of. With the progress of the Colony a further demand may probably arise: calling for building sites, in the neighbourhood of the Towns

but the rates at which allotments

at first sold, must not be expected

rocre

on for the future.

PUBLIC RECORD OFFICE

Reference :----

C.O./133

.

The Blice Assessment, which is . estimated to yield about $2,000 per annum, must be expected to become : productive with the increase of

mori

tenements.

Next to the Crown Leases the Licenses and Excise Farms (as that for Opium) are the most productive sources.

of

of Pevenew, and like those at Singapore should increase with the progress of the places

It will be an early object with me to carry out the proposed Ordinance for a duty on Wines, Spirits, and Fermented Liquors, but the chief difficulty attending the execution of this project is the total absence of a Custom House Establishment in the Free Port

of Sanghong;

; and it ther

therefore may be.

apprehended that the machinery expressly necessary for the collection of the Par will tend to render its net produce

comparatively small.

Upon the whole, there is fair. reason to anticipate that the fired Revenue may be raised; to about $30,000 per annum, and that when the expenses incidental to the first formation of the

Colony