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from her liquor licenses, $48,646 from fees and fines, which 
together with fees from miscellaneous sources make a total of 
$353,874, as compared with the total municipal receipts from 
all sources of $1,029,525. 1 
The larger the city and the denser the population, the more 
important do the sums total derived from fees become, as com¬ 
pared with the general receipts. In the great cities the revenue 
from fees constitute about ten per cent, of the total income 
from all sources. In St. Louis 2 the fees amounted to $2,168,365, 
while the general receipts were $12,041,402. The fee payments 
of all kinds in the city of Philadelphia 3 for the year 1896 
amounted to almost four million dollars, while the total munic¬ 
ipal receipts were about thirty-one and one-half million dollars. 
1 Annual Reports , Minneapolis, 1896, p. 31. 
2 Fees accounted for in the Comptroller’s Report of St. Louis for 1896, 
p. 5. 
Wharfage. $65,283 53 
Boiler and elevator inspection. 13,953 00 
Building permits. 9,862 00 
Street railroad franchises... 74,152 15 
Commissioner’s fees. 157,169 15 
Recorder of deeds. 54,061 10 
Scales... ... 10,656 35 
Licenses. 1,367,755 53 
Inspector of fertilizers. 17,699 92 
Rees of office. 3,613 55 
Rees for oil inspection. 14,525 51 
Insurance fees. 536 80 
Total (not including occupation taxes on licenses). $2,168,365 06 
[The total sum of the amounts given is a little over $1,788,000. —Ed.] 
3 Philadelphia Compt. Report , 1896, p. 21. 
Boiler inspection. . $20,301 50 
Building inspector..... 38,235 31 
Search fees from tax office. 6,508 60 
City solicitors. 247,537 22 
Port warden. 703 00 
Prothonotary... 54,535 61 
Recorders. 105,243 25 
Register of wills... 92,600 10 
Sheriffs. 65,998 47 
Clerk of Quarter Sessions. 39,384 11 
Bureau of highways. 168,510 07 
Surveys. 181,398 49 
Waters. 2,835,326 74 
Total. $3,909,030 08 
[The sum of the amounts given is a little over $3,852,000.— Ed.] 
