Sources of Revenue. 1^ 



gives amounts received for lottery licenses ; and duties on sales 

 at auction are shown under D. 



The total receipts from duties and licenses for these fifteen years 

 were one hundred nineteen thousand forty dollars. This is an 

 average of seven thousand nine hundred thirty-six dollars per year. 



From 1833 until March 31, 1842, owing to the transfer of the 

 liquor license fees to the towns and the repeal of many of the duties 

 on writs, etc., the receipts from duties and licenses became very 

 meager. Seven hundred seventy-five dollars was the total amount 

 received by the state from this source for these nine years. This 

 is an annual average of only eighty-six dollars, a diminution of 

 seven thousand eight hundred fifty dollars from the average for 

 the preceding fifteen years. In 1841 the general assembly passed 

 an act laying licenses on pedlers. A license for a year was to cost 

 twenty dollars ; for six months, twelve dollars; and for three months, 

 seven dollars.^ The receipts from these licenses for the first year were 

 more than twenty-five hundred dollars. In 1842 the legislature amended 

 the act by providing that no inhabitant of the state should be subject 

 to this license^ and as a result the revenue from this source was greatlv 

 lessened. The average revenue per annum from all the duties and 

 licenses from April 1, 1842, until March 31, 1846. was $1,055.50, but 

 if the first year be omitted, the average falls to $568.33. 



^ Public Acts, May 1841, chap. 37, sec. 3. 

 2 Public Acts, May 1842, chap. 41. 



