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moft other countries. They pay no land-tax, no window-tax, 
no excife, no tax on any of the luxuries of life ; no poor-rates, 
nor any afleflment towards the maintenance of the clergy. Ex- 
cept the tenth on grain and wine, brought into Cape Town, apd 
a fmall Cuftom-houfe duty on foreign articles imported, the 
duties to which they are liable are, in a great meafure, optional, 
being levied on their extreme paffion for buying, felling, and 
transferring property. The ftamp duty, the public vendue duty, 
the transfer duty on fale of immovable eftates, and the duty 
arifmg from the fales of buildings on loan-lands, are branchest 
of the revenue moftly of this defcription. 
The revenues of the colony are derived fron^ the following 
fources, comprized under 13 heads: 
1. Land revenue, 
confiding in 
Rents of Loan farms. 
Gratuity lands. 
— Quit rents. 
• Places taken by the month. 
— — - Salt pans. 
2. Duties on grain, wine, and fpirits, levied at the barrier^ 
3. Transfer duty on fale of immovable eftates. 
4. Duty arifmg from the fale of buildings on loan farms. 
5. Public vendue duty. 
6. Fees received in the Secretary's office, 
y. Cuftoms. 
8. Port fees. 
9. Poftage of letters. 
10. Seizures, fines, and penalties. 
3 G 2 1 1. Li* 
