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TABLE III.

Comparison between the sources of revenue of 1897 and 1926.

Heads of Revenue

Revenue for 1926.

Revenue for 1897.

1. LIGHT DUES.

110,544

114.176

Do. Special Assessment, Ord. No. 10

of 1899

127,655

2. LICENCES AND INTERNAL REVENUE

NOT OTHERWISE SPECIFIED :-

Arms Licences

2,400

Assessed Taxes

3,636,668

430 429,137

Auctioneers' Licences

3,000

1,800

Billiard Table and Bowling Alley Licences...

350

900

Boarding-house Licences

75

206

Boat Licences

115,406

6,971

Cargo Boat Licence

11,448

Carriage, Chair &c. Licences

240,156

43.324

Chinese Boarding-house Licences

16,721

Chinese Passenger Ship Licences

1,875

380

Chinese Undertakers' Licences

860

200

Companies Local Registers Licences

1,824

2.863

Dangerous Goods Licences

2,508

505

Dog Licences

14,862

2.483

Emigration Passage Brokers' Licences

1,200

1.000

Ferry Licences, N.T.

9

Fines

134,169

31.835

Fishing Stake & Station Licences

1,189

Fishing Licences

70

Forestry Licences,

N.T.

4,889

Forfeitures

87.749

4,357

Game Licences

3,430

120

Hawkers' Licences

81,206

6,835

Junk Licences

52,103

29.06-1

Kowloon (West Ferry Licences)

247,130

Kowloon (East Ferry Licences)

16,120

Liquor Duties

1,186,313

Liquor Licences

393,898

67,187

Marine Store Dealers' Licences

10,080

5,280

Marriage Licences

820

482

Money Changers' Licences

9,960

550

Opium Monopoly

2,831,305

Pawnbrokers' Licences

132,713

286,000 39,000

Permits to cut Earth and Stone, N.T.

1,859

Pharmacy and Poison Licences

Pilots' Licences

170 150

Carried forward

9,471,436

1,086,433