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Magistrates tends to prove this ; and confirmation would 

 appear to be found in the following Table, in which I have 

 compared the number of taverns licensed in, and the arrack 

 revenue derived from the various divisions of this Province, 

 with the population and the number of Police convictions. 



District. 



Colombo 



Salpiti Korale 



Sina and Hewagam 



Korales 

 Pasdum, Raygam, and 



WaWehvilla Korales, 



including Kalutara 



and Panadure 

 Three and Four Korales 

 Alut Kuril and Hapiti- 



gam Korales 

 Ratnapura 



42,810 

 41,910 



97,488 



115,623 

 61,591 



104,842 

 82,921 



1} 



120 



196 

 124 



6L 



54 



£18,317 

 3,937 



1,533 

 3,830 



5,751 

 938 



ci 



O 



. o 



C ~H 



JZ5 



882 \ 

 1,187 / 



805 



590 

 520 



650 

 1,720 



c c 



6'. rf. 



4 3 



9|J 



3ft 



1 3 



1 OA 

 8} 



3 5 

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O O 



^ o 



O '~ l 



202- 



185 



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The above figures are averages of the last three years, and 

 from these it may be seen that, to a great extent, the Police 

 cases bear a relative proportion to the density of the tavern 

 licences, and still more so to the amount contributed per head 

 to the Arrack rents ; the largest contributors to this branch of 

 the revenue being also the most frequent visitors to the 

 Magistrate's Court. 



There is, indeed, a striking exception to this rule, in the 

 case of the Kalutara and Panadure Division, where, although 

 the proportion of licensed taverns and the number of Police 

 cases agree, as in the other instances, we find the revenue per 

 head the lowest in the scale. The only way in which we 

 can account for this discrepancy is, by supposing that in this 

 District, which is the great centre of arrack distillation, there 



