﻿Newpapers. 
  87 
  

  

  pound 
  on 
  manufactured 
  tobacco, 
  and 
  to 
  50 
  cts. 
  per 
  thousand 
  

   on 
  cigarettes. 
  

  

  The 
  following 
  is 
  a 
  comparative 
  statement 
  of 
  the 
  number 
  

   of 
  pounds 
  of 
  mauufiictured 
  tobacco 
  sold 
  during 
  the 
  years 
  

   1882 
  and 
  1883 
  : 
  

  

  Date. 
  

  

  Xo. 
  lbs. 
  Tobacco. 
  

  

  Xo. 
  lbs. 
  Snuflf. 
  

  

  Xo. 
  Cigarettes. 
  

  

  1882 
  

   1883 
  

  

  4,401,468 
  

   6,281,443 
  

  

  47,200 
  

   51,205 
  

  

  12,590,000 
  

   39,213,000 
  

  

  An 
  increase 
  of 
  Tobacco 
  1,879,975 
  lbs., 
  SnufF 
  4,005 
  lbs., 
  

   and 
  26,023,000 
  Cigarettes. 
  

  

  Total 
  amount 
  of 
  revenue 
  paid 
  by 
  the 
  manufacturers 
  of 
  

   Durham 
  from 
  Oct. 
  1st, 
  1S78 
  to 
  Jan. 
  1st, 
  1884— 
  §3,545,589.08. 
  

  

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  present 
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