CO129-179 - Governor Hennessy - 1877 [9-12] — Page 436

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I established last only for the isle of Stamps, and the prosecutions I have ordered under the Irbinance, have tended to increase

Monthly

revenue

I now endre

for your Lordship's information

the "Collector's Return, buted 1th

December, chewing that

MA

to

the 30th of November 1877 we Stained $109.537.84 from the

Stamp Ordinance as

against

$95,880.52 in the corresponding

seriva

2.

of the Bear 1876.

From the Inclosures in

Sir Arthur Kennedy's despatch A. 200 of 21¢t November 1876, it

will be

teen

that be estimateń

the total Stamp revenue for the

twelve months of 1877 at $100,000. As the first eleven months have given $9,537 in excess of this,

it is probable the Stamp Reverme collected up to the end of 1877 will be about $25,000 the year's estimate

Der

I have the hover to be,

My Lord.

Your Ertchip's Most Obedient Stumble Sewant,

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