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JOURNAL, E.A.S. (CEYLON). 



[Vol. IX, 



Statement showing the Quantity of Plumbago exported and 

 the Amount of Royalty received from 1868 to 1872. 





Quantity 



Amount of 



Years. 



exported. 



Royalty received. 





Cwt. 



Es. 



1868 



141,095 



13,026 



1869 



226,132 



16,119 



1870 



85,249 



6,796 



1871 



125,257 



9,949 



1872 



136,052 



15,721 





Cwt. 713,785 



Rs. 61,611 



Appendix No. 5. 



Preamble. 



Dues on 

 plumbago. 



An Ordinance to provide for the collection of the 

 sums due to the Crown on Plumbago, 



No. 21 op 1873. 



WHEREAS a certain sum in lieu of rent is 

 now levied on all plumbago dug on Crown 

 lands, and a royalty is due to the Crown on all 

 plumbago dug on private lands, and the payment 

 on these dues is largely evaded, and it is expedient 

 to secure the same by collecting them as a royalty 

 at the different ports of shipment : It is enacted 

 by the Governor of Ceylon, with the advice and 

 consent of the Legislative Council thereof, as 

 follows : — 



1. There shall be raised, levied, and paid, as a 

 royalty upon all plumbago of the produce of this 

 Island exported beyond seas a duty of 50 cents 

 per cwt.* 



*The royalty of Rs. 10 per ton, or 50 cents per cwt., was levied from 1st 

 April, 1874, but by the Ordinance No. 22 of 1877 the royalty on all plumbago 

 exported was fixed at 25 cents per cwt., instead of 50 cents, from 21st December 

 1877. 



