Note 10 — Chapter XLIV · THE PRIMORSK OR SEA-COAST PROVINCE.

For municipal taxes, police, roads, etc., were paid at Nikolaefsk, £1,582; Vladivostock, £1,500; Sophiisk, £140; Petropavlovsk, £70; Okhotsk, £15; and Ghijiga, £11; that is, about £3,320 together. The excise taxes, however, were far higher—namely, for imported liquors, £9,500; home-made beer, etc., £37; home-made liquors, £569; licences, £1,569; fines, £52; duty for growing tobacco, 6s., and for selling it, £269; and tobacco fines, £20. This shows an excise income from the province of £12,000, being a decrease on foreign liquors, compared with the previous year, of £4,600, and an increase on home-made liquors of £439; but an increase for licences of £150, and £15 for fines.