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NETHERLANDS : — EAST INDIES

Batavia, Samaiaug, Socrabaya, Padaug, and Makassar— Resident and Regent courts, courts of circuit, district courts, and courts of priests.

The State contributes about 150,000 guilders yearly to Protestant and Catholic or])han-houses.

Finance.

The local revenue is derived from land, taxes on houses and estates, from licences, customs duties, personal imposts, and a number of indirect taxes ; from the Government monopolies of salt and opium, railways, and from the sale of Government products.

Revenue and expenditure : —

Year

1908 1909 1910 1911 1912

Revenue

Guilders 190,050,215 197,237,032 220,834,112 212,588,075 234,075,845

Exieuditure

Guilders 191,321,216 201,278,892 226,894,203 228,738,102 267,504,873

Surplus or Deficit

Guilders

- 1,271,001

- 4,041,860

- 6,060,091 16,150,027

- 33,429,028

Percentage of the different sources of revenue :-

Year

Taxes

Monopolies i 23-5

Products 2 17-4

Other Receipts 18-0

Total

1908

41-1

100

1909

41-9

24-6

14-1

19-4

100

1910

40-7

24-0

13-4

21-9

100

1911

41-1

25-5

13-4

20-0

100

1912

^6-5

25-1

14-1

24-3

100

1 Opium and salt.

2 Coffee, cinchona, tin, coal, rubber, etc.

The budget estimates for 1913 are : —

Home government expenditure. Expenditure in the Colonies

Revenues in the mother country. Colonics.

Deficit

Guilders

47,125,689 237,331,325

32,218,550 222,600,658

284,457,014

254,819,208 29,637,806

The sources of revenue are stated as follows (in guilders) : Receipts in the Netherlands from sales of Government coffee, 1,823,623 cinchona, 237,600; rubber, 1,242,500; tin, 25,884,427 ; railways, 316,000 share of the State in the profits of the Biliton Company, 1.000,000 various, 1,714,400. Receipts in India from sales of opiimi 29,826,300 import, export, and excise duties, 33,261,000 ; land revenues, 22,178,500 ; sales of coffee, 865,600 ; sales of salt, 14,320,000 ; forests, 7,408,000 ; railways, 31,254,000; tax on trade.^ 6,200,000; coal, 4,602,000; income-tax. 8,200,000 ; from all other sources, 65,485,258.