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232 KHE In 1872 it was as follows:-- Da + . 11 .. . 94 va Total. Actually collected 783,061 Belauce... 126,710 909,772 Stamps 42,868 Excise 29,985 Law and Justice 7,223 Salt 223,000 Opium 145,000 1,367,849 Adding customs duties at Calcutta and Bombay, it will appear that the State receives from the district about £140,000 ; and if in addition the cost of carriage of salt from the Punjab to Kheri be added about Rs. 2-6-0 per maund, or Rs. 172,000,* the entire fiscal burthen upon the people will reach the sum of Rs. 1,572,000, a sum vastly larger than the dis- trict paid at any previous historical period. Government has recently made some reductions in the land tax lest its pressure should be unduly felt. It cannot be determined whether this taxation is heavy or not till we have a more exact estimate of the district resources. As already seen the wealth of the district is purely agricultural, the cultivation is 792,000 acres, and the average crop is worth about Rs. 12 per acre. The anaual agricultural income then would be Rs. 9,404,000, of which Government takes Rs. 1,572,000, or almost exactly one-sixth-a just proportion, taking into consideration that it is the landlord as well as the ruler. The follow- ing tables show the revenue and expenditure for the year ending 31st March, 1872, the preceding are for the provincial revenue year ending with 30th September, 1871 : Receipts. Re. Recent settlement revenue collections 661,880 Rents of Goverment villages and lands Income tax 9,296 Tax uo apirits and drugs 41,361 Stamp duty 47.615 Law aud quatice 7,225 Totai 767.276 Expenditure. Ra. Rerenue refunds and drawbacks 3,121 Miscellaneous refunds 3,769 Land revenue, deputy coinmissioners, and esta. blishment 10.731 Settlement 47,280 Excise or abkiri 4,921 Assessed taxes 317 Stamps 870 Service of process Law od justice Criminal courta... 2,105 25,930 Ecclesiastical 0 Medical 5,129 Total 134,173 14. PIE 40 The galt tax is three rupees per maand ; the salt import, eee " Trade," 74,464 maunda in 18:2,