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SPECIFICATION OF TAXES. DUTIES, &C.
L O C U S T T A X (tt).
ACTHORITT.
(Chargeable yearly to provide money for the destruction of locusts.)
A . — F o r and in respect of all titheable produce one per cent, on the value of such produce *
over and above the ordinary tithe.
B . — F o r and in respect of all houses, shops and other buildings the verghi of which is charged
on their estimated value (verghi kimat), oue thousandth part of such estimated value.
D . — F o r and in respect of every public office or employment of profit, whetlier public or • j_
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private, and for and in respect of every annuity, pension or stipend payable out of the
public revenue of tlri> Island one per cent, on all incomes derived from any of these
sources, amounting to £200 a yoar or more.
E . — F o r and in respect of every sheep and goat yearly the sum of 15 paras.
(«). O n caroubs exported the charge is 30 paras per cantar, whether ground or entire or
mixed with any other substance.
FINES AND FORFEITURES OF CUSTOMS, FOREST, POLICE
AND OTHER DEPARTMENTS.
RENTS OF GOVERNMENT LANDS AND BUILDINGS
LEASED AND LET TO INDIVIDUALS.
PROCEEDS OF UNCLAIMED • ESTATES.
•SALES OF:—
Forest produce including bark, salt, drugs, rushes, mulberry leaves and other produce of
Crown lands, bronze coin, Gazettes, Maps, Laws, & c , antiquities 3nd treasure trove, bran and
Government property generally, condemned police clothing, &c.
REIMBURSEMENTS, viz:—
Payments for services of Customs guards, purchase of discharge by police, costs recovered
in Court, damages done to forest, Hospital stoppages, repayments for gaol diet of Military and
other prisoners, repayments for Government House furniture, repayments for guarding W a r
Department stores, tent hire, Customs bonded store rent, Customs warehouse rent, powder-store
rent, Gazette advertisements, over-payments recovered, allowance for collecting Evcaf tithes, -fee.
(a) Suspended uDder Law No. 12 of 1S81. sec. 13, from 6th June, 1906, see Proclamation published in Gazette No. 856, page 5915.