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under two years old, but the number of milch cows rose by 
14,275 head to 1,458,130, which was higher than in any 
year since 1879. The number of sheep in 1900 was 4,386,697, 
an increase of 22,190 over the figure of 1899, whilst pigs showed 
a decrease of 94,836 to 1,268,474, and poultry an increase of 
313,568 to 18,547,088 head. 
Inland Revenue—Forty-third Report of the Commusstoners of 
Her Mazesty’s Inland Revenue for the year ended 31st 
March, 1900. |\Cd. 347. Prace, 15. 754- 
The report of the Commissioners of Inland Revenue for 
the year ended 31st March, 1900, shows that the total net 
receipts from the Inland Revenue amounted to £85,218,234, 
of which £9,765,394, arising from excise and death duties, 
was allocated to the local taxation accounts, and the re- 
mainder to the Exchequer. ‘The total net receipts were made 
up from the following sources: Excise, £37,074,118; stamps, 
48,429,471; land tax, £739,493; inhabited house duty, 
£1,698,523; income-tax, £18,867,336; and death duties, 
£18,409,293; and they show an increase, compared with 
1899, of £6,940,607. 
The report deals chiefly with the sources of the revenue 
but amongst other information a table is given, showing the 
sums allocated to tlie local taxation accounts in each year 
since 1891. From this table it appears that since that 
year the sum taken annually trom the Inland Revenue for 
the relief of local taxation has risen from £6,868,218 to 
£9,795,394- 
The gross assessment on lands (including Tithe Rent- 
charges, etc.) under Schedule A. amounted in 1898-99 for 
the United Kingdom to £53,011,086, a decrease of £926,000 
from that of the previous year. For lands in England and 
' Wales, exclusive of the Metropolis, the assessment was 
£37;296,350, aS compared with 438,142,515 in 1897-98. The 
gross assessment under Schedule B. (profits derived from 
the occupation of lands) for the United Kingdom in 1898-99, 
was £17,632,032,a decrease of £658,796 from that of 1897-08. 
