ox THE PRESENT APPROPRIATION OF 'WAGES, ETC. 



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and numerous other sports, all involving a large expenditure. A total 

 of G,000,OOOZ. a year, of whicli about one-fourth, or 1,500,000/., is spent in 

 materials, or a proportion of O'lld. gross, and 0'02(7. net per head 

 per day, wni probably cover all the other forms of amusements in the 

 United Kingdom. 



Taxes. 



To the personal expenditure thus traced we should add the amount paid 

 to the State and expended by the same, as well as the amount paid to the 

 local government. In the year ended March 31, 1880, the amount paid 

 in customs, excise stamps and duties, land tax, house duty and property and 

 income tax, amounted to 67,826, OOOL Of this 44,626,OO0Z. have already 

 appeared in the personal expenditure for food and drink. There remains, 

 therefore, to be added 23,200,000Z. of public taxation, while for local 

 purposes the amount levied direct by rates in 1873-74, was 24,332,000/., 

 making a total of 47,532,000/. Of the 92,158,000/., thus levied by taxes 

 (public and local), by far the largest portion is expended in salai'ies in 

 the United Kingdom. What may be considered as nationally expended 

 are votes for supply, manufacture, and repair of warlike and other stores, 

 1,200,000/. ; superintending establishment of, and expenditure for, works, 

 buildings, and repairs, at home and abroad, 850,000/. ; dockyards and 

 naval yards, at home and abroad, 1,300,000/. ; naval stores, 1,000,000/. ; 

 new works building, 550,000/. ; public works, 1,500,000/. ; Foreign and 

 Colonial Civil Services 567,000/. ; in all 6,967,000/. The proportion beino- 

 0'89d. gross, and 0'13c/. net per head per day. 



Cost and Profits op Disteibution. 



In order to ai'rive at the real expenditure, we have deducted 20 per 

 cent, from retail prices for the cost and profits of distribution, as well as 

 all taxes imposed on articles of food and drink. The real cost and profits 

 of distribution should, however, be calculated as adding to the utilities 

 of the articles consumed. The amount deducted for distribution beino- 

 155,000,000/., the half representing the real cost is 77,500,000/., which 

 gives a proportion of 1"45(:/. per head per day. 



Summing up the different items of expenditure, incomplete as I fear 

 they must be, they are as follows : — 



Total Expenditure. 



