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SIR SAMUEL WHITE BAKER
CYPRUS AS I SAW IT IN 1879
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ESTIMATE OF REVENUE AND EXPENDITURE FOR TH E YEAR 1878-79. No. REVENUE. Amount. No. EXPENDITURE. Amount. I Dimes or tithes on produce of land... . £ 72,000 r Pay of the Turkis h Governorof Cyprus for part of the year, and of the British High Commissioner for remainder of the year ; also Secretarial Establishments for the entire year. £ 9,000 2 Verghis, or tax upon property, professions, and trades ... . 22,000 2 Finance and Accounts Establishments . . . 1,400 3 Tax for exemption from Military Service. . . 9,O0O 3 Law and Justice, including Insular High Court 2,000 4 11,000 4 Administrative Establishments of the six districts of Cyprus, including cost of collection of district revenues, establishments of district Judicial Courts, 13.500 5 Customs Duties . . . I3 ,400 • 5 Cost of Prisons . . . 3,000 6 Excise on Tobacco and 16,850 6 Cost of Military Police 16,500 7 Salt monopoly. . . . I5>145 7 Customs and Excise Es tablishments . . . . 5,000 8 Miscellaneous, including tax on sale and transfer of landed property, on measurements, on contracts, judicial fees and fines, &c IO,605 8 Miscellaneous, including Educational EstablishTo'al of Estimated Expenditure . . 1,600 52,000 Gran d tota l o f Esti mate d Revenu e 170,000 Surplus . .Grand total . . . . . 118,000 170,000

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