ROYAL ASIATIC SOCIETY. 191 

 A. 



Revenue collected by the Government of Ceylon in the year 1791 — 2. 









s. 



Urn 



Kevenues collected at Colombo, Calpentyn and Putlam... 



2475 



10 







Do. 



at Jaffnapatam, Manaar and Wanny 



6298 



10 







Do. 





1429 



5 







Do. 





1371 



7 







Do. 





945 



9 



2 





£... 



12520 



1 



2 



In the following Table (B.) the collected Revenue of the 

 Island during three years is shewn classfied under three sepa- 

 rate heads. The largest of these amounts are derivable from 

 Licenses, Arrack Farms and such sources, the sums realized 

 from the Poll Tax and Tax on Land having been most incon- 

 siderable, except in the Jaffnapatam Collectorates. 



Of the amounts under the first head, those produced by- 

 Stamps appear to have been most inconsiderable : the export 

 and Import duties made up the bulk of these. Of Export 

 duties, that on Palmiras in the Collectorate of Jaffnapatam, and 

 at Colombo on Coir, Betel-nut and woods, appear to have been 

 the most considerable. In the earlier days of the Dutch Go- 

 vernment, the export of Palmiras was prohibited except on the 

 express permission in writing of the Commandant and dissave of 

 the district. For this License a fee varying in amount with 

 the extent of the shipment and the caprice of the officials, was 

 invariably levied. It is easy to imagine that this in time grew 

 into a valuable source of emolument : indeed at a later period, 

 (1787) the Government found this system worked so prejudi- 

 cially to commerce, that the duty was fixed and made payable 



