Alexandria daily advertiser. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1803-1808, 1806-01-04

A<ctHS
The nett revenue arising
from duties on merchandise
and tonnage which aecrueddur-
:, 30 - Il, o2o,a79
The nett revenue arising
from the same source, which
accrued during the year 1902,
amounted TO lo,lsf,oo4
That which accrued during
the wear 1905, amounted TO 1895, 4S0S
Aud thar which accrued DUR
inplhe year 1904, amounted,
after deducting that portion
which arose from the, additions
Fl duties constituting the Medi-
terranean gand Gas will appear
by the statement G. ITO ,o72. 5s3
Ftisa aseersa;urd that the rest revenue
which has accrued during the three first
Quarters Of the year 1905, does not fall
short ef that of the corresponding quar-
tiers Of the year 1864; and that branch OF
the revenue may, exclusively of the Me-
diterTanean fluid, be safely estimated Tor
the present, at twelve millions OF dollars,
which is yearly the average OF the TWO
wears sos and 1904.
The defaication which took place ~ the
wear 1902, and the increase IN the next
folIowirg wears, sufficiently shew that no
iucensiderabie portion OF tnas branch OF
the revenue, is due TO the neutrality OF
the United States during the continuance
OF war 10 Europe Yet If the revenue
of 1902, the only year of European peace
since 1872. be considered as the best ga.
sis on which 80 form an estimate, TINS,
with an addition Of zen per cent. on ae-
count of the increase of population tor
wears. and of near 100000 dollars, the
computed revenue of New-Orleans, Will
give result of near eleven millions aud
shalt.
The statement (B) exhibits in detail the
several species of merchandise and other
seurces from which that revenue was col
lec,ed during the wear 1904 O - &, ~ :
r-frr revenue arising from the sales OF
pAhlic lands has been greater during the
year ending on the 3oth September, 1905,
than that of any preceding year. 1t ap-
pears By the statement CO. that during that
period. besides 145 eco acres sold 10 per.
sons claiming a right Of prescription,
474. 900 acres have been disposed OF at the
ordinary sales, making altogether, win
the preceding sales, from the time when
she land Offices were opened 10 1900 and
1901, an aggregate of near two millions OF
acres. The actual payments by purchasers
which, during the year ending on the S0tt
of September. 1904, had accounted TO
$4,000 dollars, and had not in any one
precious year exceeded two hundred aud
Fifty thousand dollars, have during the year
ending the 30th September, 1905, amounts
ed 10 SIS 900 dollars of which sum
535 900 dollars were paid In specie, and
the residue in stock of the public debt.
The specie receipts from that source may
for the ensuing year be safely estimated &C
Ave handred thousand dollars.
: The receipts arising from
the permanent revenue OF the
United States may, therefore,
WITHOUT even Including the
duties on postage and other
small incidental branches, be
computed, for the year 800,
at twelve millions & five han.
drcd thousand dollars. f2,5oo,oeo
Tbs payments in the trea-
.nrY during the same year,
on account OF the temporary
duties, constituting che 8 Me.
diterfancan taDd," which will
have dccrNea. 10 the sJst day
CT March nexl, are estimated
al 100000 dollars, and about
enc haEJred thousand nav be
expected from the arrears OF
internal duties and of.the dl-
reef TAX, add from other inci-
dental branches, making for
temporary aadincidental re-
seipts ,one million of dollars, 100000