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NETHERLANDS : — EAST INDIES
Batavia, Samaiaug, Socrabaya, Padaug, and Makassar— Resident and Regent courts, courts of circuit, district courts, and courts of priests.
The State contributes about 150,000 guilders yearly to Protestant and Catholic or])han-houses.
Finance.
The local revenue is derived from land, taxes on houses and estates, from licences, customs duties, personal imposts, and a number of indirect taxes ; from the Government monopolies of salt and opium, railways, and from the sale of Government products.
Revenue and expenditure : —
Year
1908 1909 1910 1911 1912
Revenue
Guilders 190,050,215 197,237,032 220,834,112 212,588,075 234,075,845
Exieuditure
Guilders 191,321,216 201,278,892 226,894,203 228,738,102 267,504,873
Surplus or Deficit
Guilders
- 1,271,001
- 4,041,860
- 6,060,091 16,150,027
- 33,429,028
Percentage of the different sources of revenue :-
Year
Taxes
Monopolies i 23-5
Products 2 17-4
Other Receipts 18-0
Total
1908
41-1
100
1909
41-9
24-6
14-1
19-4
100
1910
40-7
24-0
13-4
21-9
100
1911
41-1
25-5
13-4
20-0
100
1912
^6-5
25-1
14-1
24-3
100
1 Opium and salt.
2 Coffee, cinchona, tin, coal, rubber, etc.
The budget estimates for 1913 are : —
Home government expenditure . Expenditure in the Colonies
Revenues in the mother country . Colonics .
Deficit
Guilders
47,125,689 237,331,325
32,218,550 222,600,658
284,457,014
254,819,208 29,637,806
The sources of revenue are stated as follows (in guilders) : Receipts in the Netherlands from sales of Government coffee, 1,823,623 cinchona, 237,600; rubber, 1,242,500; tin, 25,884,427 ; railways, 316,000 share of the State in the profits of the Biliton Company, 1.000,000 various, 1,714,400. Receipts in India from sales of opiimi 29,826,300 import, export, and excise duties, 33,261,000 ; land revenues, 22,178,500 ; sales of coffee, 865,600 ; sales of salt, 14,320,000 ; forests, 7,408,000 ; railways, 31,254,000; tax on trade.^ 6,200,000; coal, 4,602,000; income-tax. 8,200,000 ; from all other sources, 65,485,258.
