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COMPARATIVE YEARLY STATEMENT OF THE REVENUE.

Specify each separate Tax or Duty necording to the classification employed in the Estimates.

Amount collected in 1926.

Amount collected in 1927.

Increase.

Decrease.

Cause of Increase or Decrease.

CALSS 1.

$ c.

c.

$ c.

1. LIGIIT DUES,

110,543.80

132.379.31

21,835.51

Do.

Sperint Assessment, Ord. No. 10 of 1899,

Improved Trading

Conditions.

127,655.26

158,762.56

31,107.30

A

2. LICENCES AND INTERNAL] REVENUE NOT OTHERWI ›E

SPECIFIED.

Arms Licences,

2,400.00

2,410.00

10.00

Assessel Taxes,

3,636,668.36 3,676,159,06

39,490.70

Auctioneers' Licences,

Billiard Table and Bowling Alley

Licences.

3,000.00 2,400.00

600.00

350.00

350.00

Boarding-house Licences,

75.00

75.00

**

Boat Licences,

115,405.85

Curringe, Chair, &c. Liccnees,

Chinese Boarding-house Licences,

Chinese Passenger Ship Licences,

Chinese Undertakers' Licences,...]

16,721.33

1,875.00

116,380.25

240,155.83 234,638.35

20,383.33 3,662.00

2,025.00

150.00

974.40

5,517,48

860.00

900.00

40.00

Companies Local Registers Li-

Pences,

1,823.89

2,458.10

634.21

Dangerous Goods Licences,

2,508.00

2,386.00

122.00

Dog Licences....

14,862.00

9,771.00

5,091.00

Emigration Passage Brokers'

Licences,

1,200.00

1.200.00

Ferry Licences, N‚T.............

9.00

9.00

Fines,

134,169.47

123,174.18

995.29

Fishing Stake & Stution Licences,

1,189.30

935.90

253.40

Fishing Licences,

Forestry Licences, N.T.,

..

70.00

70.00

4,888.74 4,099.70

789.04

Forfeitures,..

87,748.66 75,943.32

11,805.34

8,430.00 3,490.00

60.00

Game Licences,

Hawkers' Licences,

Junk Licences,

81,206.00 105,483,00 24,277.00

52,102.75 52,390.25

287.50

Kowloon (West Ferry Licences), 247,129.50 285,900,00 88,770,50

Kowloon (East Ferry Licences),... 16,120.00 13,200.00

2,920.00

Carried forward......................... 4,904,167.74 5,036,869.31 161,299.12 28,597.55