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price on the occasion of any infraction of treaties, and which 

 frequently happened. It does not seem to have occurred to 

 them, that, by increasing this one source of revenue, they 

 would have been enabled to have abandoned many trifling 

 and comparatively unprofitable taxes. The probable reason of 

 this moderation was, that the supply of Cinnamon from the 

 Kandyan country was of too great value to them to risk by 

 any addition to the selling price of Salt. 



Table No. 1, 





Farmed 





Collected 





Profits. 





i 



Revenues 





Revenues 















s. 



d. 



£ 



s. 



d. 



£ 



s. 



d. 





6278 



3 



4 



2475 



10 







5874 



3 



2 





6341 



12 







6298 



10 







625 



6 









1311 



18 







1429 



6 



4 



1525 



17 



2 





498 











182 



15 



8 



1080 



2 



2 





24 











1188 



10 



2 



82 



11 









26 



16 







945 



9 











7 







£... 



14480 



9 



4 



12520 



1 



2 



9188 



6 



6 



Collected Revenue. 



The amount of Revenue directly collected by the officials of 

 Government did not fall far short of those farmed out to individuals. 

 In the year 1791- — 2 the total receipts under th# head were 

 £12,520 Is, 2d., as shewn by the following Table: — 



