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five years of large export, the Kurun6gala district of the North- 

 Western Province and the Kalutara district of the Western have 

 supplied probably three-fourths of the whole plumbago recorded 

 in the Customs returns. 



Appendix No. £• 



Sessional Paper XIX. or 1873. 



Return of the Number of Plumbago Pits, 



Crown Land, Private Land specially 

 on license. Land, exempted. 



Western Province ... 762 ... 280a ... 38 



North- Western Province ... -— ... j j- ••• 10 



Southern Province ... 419d ... 187e ... 11/ 



1,181 539 59 



(a) The claims to exemption of royalty of many of these lands are 



under consideration. 



(b) Land purchased from Government and subject to the payment of 



royalty. 



(c) Private lands so far as is known. 



(d) 108 mines now in operation. 



311 mines abandoned for the reason of their contents having been 

 exhausted, or not worth the expense of incurring. 



(e) 51 mines now in operation. 



136 mines abandoned for the reason of their contents having been 

 exhausted, or not worth the expense of incurring. 

 (/) 8 mines in operation. 



3 mines abandoned for the reason of their contents having been 

 exhausted, or not worth the expense of incurring. 



Statement showing the Quantity of Plumbago exported during 



the last twenty years, during periods of Jive years ; 



and the Amount of Royalty received during 



each of such periods. 



Quantity Amount of 



Years. exported. Royalty received. 



Cwt. Us. 



1853 to 1857 87,011 ... 2,080 



1858 to 1862 ... 191,845 ... 13,464 



1863 to 1867 291,415 ... 37,227 



1868 to 1872 ... 713,785 ... 61,611 



Cwt. 1,284,056 Rs. 114,382 



