CO129-051 - Sir Bowring - 1855 [7-9] — Page 296

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The General Abstract will shew, that the Revenne revived in Hongtrong,

and

England.

amounted in all to £247045.5.3%

and gives the Particular of the various items forming that sum.

From the Comparative Statement

it will be seen, that the increase in the

Revenue of 1854 as compared with that of previous years. has been £2.3.4m 17. 74%

excepting the years!

1846 and 1847, the Revenue of last year has been greater. than during any of the previous years,

and

by

in the first year 1846 it was exceeded only £.4._, but if it is considered that the Opium Farm / or Monopoly produced in that year £4118. and if the item of Opium was left out of the accounts, the Receipt

in 1854 under all the other heads

exceed the like Receipts of 1846 by £2217.

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As compared with: 1847 when the Revenne reached £31,190. the apparent decrease in 1854 would be £11,145, but if is taken in account, that suring that year

a very large amount of arrears

avount of arrears of Land. Rents due for previous years (ever since 1843) had been recovered principally through the bourt, that at the close of that,

and

by other

year

means;

Land

producing not less than £1149per

it

anuver.

was resumed at the request of the holders, after they had paid up the arrears due thereon [ vide-Despatches N = 73 of 1857 and N. G of 1848 to the Secretary of State for the Colonies ] further that the Receipts for the Opium - Farm abolished on the 128 August of that year

- and the Opium

Licenses

amounted (on account of the

existence of the Opium Farm during the