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taken into account the sum.

realized by premia lands, which it is

a on

be $30,000:

It

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may

therefore

be

sales of

very difficult

to estimate before hand, as the

sales depend very

much

on

demand. The total amount

the

realized by these premia during

the last ten

years

was $450.902,

and the sums ranged from

#203,659, or nearly half the whole

, amount in 1881, to only $1,40% in

1879. Excluding these two

-estimated roughly that there will

Grinde dow what?

be, after 1887, an annual excess of Receipts over ordinary expenditure. of $35,000 besides about #30,000.

from premia

on sales

of

land, in

all $65,000. There is however, a

belief very generally entertained that business of all Kinds will be

- much developed during the

very

next few years,

when the Revenue

· exceptional years

the

average of

will be proportionally

increased.

· the remaining eight years

would

9.

be

The question presents

itself