INTRODUCTION. 



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tion of those subject to excise and those placed under the control of the Mining- 

 Department), principally because here are included such industrial establishments as 

 workshops and rather small trades, tailoring, bookmaking, bakeries, bookbinding 

 and sig-n-painting, workmen's cooperative societies (artelsj, flour mills and such like, 

 which do not enter into the number of manufactories and works reckoned in the 

 totals quoted in the 3''^, 4^^ and 5''' tables. 



Table 6. 



In reference to the Northern Eegion (IV) it must be observed that the OIo- 

 nets and Archangel governments do not pay distributary taxes upon non-guild under- 

 takings. In Siberia such dues are introduced only in parts of the country, and there 

 only upon guild operations. Transcaucasia and Central Asia also do not bear distrib- 



