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Maskat (customs) German crowns 

 Mattra (Matrah) „ „ 

 Maskat and Mattra (octroi from the interior) 

 Average receipts from other parts of Africa ) 



$1S0.000 

 60.000 

 20,000 



and Arabia 

 Zanzibar (customs and poll-tax) ... 



20.000 



160,000 



Total in German crowns 



$440,000 



In 1811 Captain Smee computes the revenue 

 of Zanzibar at 860,000 per annum, adding, how- 

 ever, that he considers it to be much more. In 

 1^46 M. Guillain gives the revenue arising from 

 customs on coffee and cloves, Indian rice and 

 melted butter, and divers taxes on shops, indigo, 

 dyes, thread-makers, silk-spinners, and so forth, as 

 follows — 



Total of Oman ... $1 36,600 



„ African dominions 349,000 



The author, who appears to have been ably 

 assisted in his inquiries by M. Loarer, also states 

 that in the days of Sayyid Said's father the farm- 

 ing of the customs at Zanzibar represented 825,000, 

 from which it gradually rose to 850,000; 860,000; 

 880,000 ; 8100,000 ; 8105,000 ; 8120,000 ; 

 §117,000; 8157,000; and 8175,000 in 1846, We 

 may safely fix the revenue in 1857 at a maximum 

 of £90,000 per annum. The expenses of navy, 

 army, and c civil service,' and the personal expendi- 



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Grand total $485,600 = 2,500,000 francs. 



