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ages of seventeen and sixty, an annual road tax of two dollars 

 upon all persons between seventeen and fifty, and an annual 

 school tax of two dollars upon all persons between twenty-one 

 and sixty. There is a direct tax upon property of J per cent, 

 upon its valuation, and specific taxes of a dollar on every horse 

 above two years old, and a dollar and a half on each dog. Of 

 the $206,000 raised by internal taxes during the last biennial 

 period, the horses paid $50,000, the mules $6000, and the dogs 

 $19,000 ! 



The indirect taxation in the shape of customs duties 

 amounted to $350,000 in the same period. The poor Hawaiian 

 does not know the blessing of a " Free Breakfast Table." 



The islands are large importers. The value of imported 

 goods was $1,184,054 in 1875, on which the Hawaiian Trea- 

 sury received $213,285 as customs duties. Forty-seven 

 thousand dollars' worth of ale, porter, cider, and light wines, 

 and_ forty-nine thousand dollars' worth of spirits, show that the 

 foreign population of 6000 is more than sufficiently bibulous. 

 The Chinamen, about 2000 in number, are, or ought to be, 

 responsible for $22,000 worth of opium; and the $42,000 

 worth of tobacco and cigars is doubtless distributed pretty 

 equally over all the nationalities. Twenty-one thousand gallons 

 of spirits were taken out of bond for consumption in 1875. 

 The licenses to sell spirits brought $18,000 into the Treasury 

 in the last biennial period, but those for the sale of awa and 

 opium brought in $55,000 during the same time. These 

 licenses are confined to Honolulu. 



There are two interesting items of customs receipts, a sum 

 of $924, the proceeds of a per capita tax of two dollars levied 

 on passengers landing on the islands, for the support of the 

 Queen's Hospital, and a sum of $1477, the proceeds of a tax 

 levied on seamen for the support of the Marine Hospital. 

 There is a sum of $700 for passports, as no Hawaiian or 

 stranger can leave the kingdom without an official permit. 



There are 5 1 vessels registered under the Hawaiian flag, of 

 which 35 are coasters, and 16 engaged in foreign freighting and 

 whaling. 



The value of domestic exports, in 1875, was $1,774,082. 

 Among these bananas, pineapples, pulu, cocoanuts, oranges, 

 limes, sandal-wood, tamarinds, betel leaves, sharks' fins, paiai, 

 whale oil, sperm oil, cocoanut oil, and whalebone. Among 

 other commodities there was exported, of coffee 165,000 lbs., 

 of fungus 45,000 lbs., of peanuts 2r,ooolbs., of rice 1,573,000 



