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REVENUE

DETAILS OF REVENUE.

Brought forward

3.-LICENCES & INTERNAL REVENUE

NOT OTHERWISE SPECIFIED.

(A) LICENCES,-Continued.

Approved Estimate

1936.

Estimate

1937.

CA

$

2,078,995

2,000,100

Vehicles, Other Drivers, etc.

3,000

Vehicles, Motor Special Licensing Fee-Foreign Registration... Wireless Receiving

21,000

55,000

2,000 30,000 (1) 78,000 (2)

Other

""

4,500

5,500

(B) INTERNAL REVENUE.

Stamp Duties

Assessed Taxes (Rates)

Assessed Taxes (Rates) N.T. North

Bets and Sweeps Tax

Entertainment Tax Estate Duty

Water Excess Supply & Meter Rents

5,800,000

5,600,000 (3)

8,000 (4)

120,000

120,000

200,000

200,000

1,000,000

1,200,000 (5)

1,900,000

2,000,000 (6)

1,414,000

1,775,000 (7)

(C) FINES & FORFEITURES.

Fines

Forfeitures

150,000

140,000 (8)

28,000

30,000 (8)

Total.....

12,769,495

13,188,600

4. FEES OF COURT OR OFFICE, PAYMENTS FOR SPECIFIC PURPOSES, and REIMBURSE-

MENTS IN AID:

(A) FEES.

Air Services

Ambulance and Cremation

Analysis

Bills of Health

7,000 400

25,000

10,500

Births and Deaths Registration

4,500

10,000 600 32,000 (9)

9,000 4,500

Blake Pier Tickets

300

Boundary Stones & Survey Fees

25,000

300 30,000 (10)

Cemetery

750

750

Certificates to Chinese Proceeding to America

500

500

China Companies

200,000

210,000 (11)

Chinese Cemetery

3,000

4,000

Court

98,000

85,000 (8)

Crown Leases

30,000

48,000 (12)

Deeds Registration

71,000

76,000 (8)

Earth and Stone Permits N. T.

16,000

5,600 (13)

Engagement and Discharge of Seamen

50,000

50,000

Evening Institute

8,000

8,000

Examination of Masters, Mates and Engineers

2,300

2,300

Gunpowder Storage

32,000

22,000 (14)

Hong Kong Companies Registration

20,000

20,000

Medical Examination of Emigrants

180,000

150,000 (15)

Miscellaneous

13,500

13,000

Money Lenders

2,000

2,000

Motor Ambulance

8,000

7,000

Official Certificates

7,000

11,000 (8)

Official Signatures

27,000

30,000 (8)

Passport

Possession

15,000

16,000 (16)

30,000

30,000

Carried forward

$

886,750

877,550

(9) More commercial work.

(1) More use of foreign cars.

(2) More licences and increased fees,

(3) Lower rentals and vacant tenements.

(4) Rates from two Districts N.T.

(5) Increased duty.

(6) Slight increase in number of documents anti-

cipated,

(7) More metered services and increased consumption. (8) Variable.

(10) More boundary stones being fixed.

(11) More registrations anticipated.

(12) Increase in issue of Crown Leases anticipated.

(13) Sale of Sand in Government hands.

(14) Less explosives stored,

(15) Overestimated in 1936.

(16) Visa fees increased.