The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1901-12-13
INTERNAL
REVENUE
Report ofthe Local
Office First
Year.
RECEIPTS WERE
NOT VERY LARGE
Over Five Hundred Special Tax
Licenses lssued-The Regis
traIion of Chinese.

The report of the United States Com
missioner of Internal Revenue this
year contains for the first time Estate
ment of the business of the District OF
Hawaii. The report, which was received
by Collector Chamberlain yesterday,
contains a statement of the local dis
trict for the year ending June 30, 1901.
While the receipts of the omce were
the smallest Of any in the United
States. the report shows an immense
amount of work in the Territory since
the office was turned over to the Uaited
States government.
The aggregate collections Tor n rs
cal year to s1O2. 1926. but the
receipts Of the current year will far ex-
coed hat figure. This office was in
charge of four different men during the
year, and they contributed to this
amount as follows: r. NJ. Frtck dep
uty in charged. s9.661.5O; William Hay
wood. So. I5I.21; VIM. r. =. Uassoa
(acting), s19,37s.96 and Roy Il. cham
berlaIn. the present collector, $3O.9sO.96
In addition to the amount reported
above is the return made by Special
Agent Thomas OF S1I,21714, whtch was
collected here Immediately afte- an
~nexation, and before any distric. had
been established in Hawaii.
There was 10 the end of the fiscal
year 592 persons in Hawaii paying the
special tax. the smallest number of any
State or Territory. excepting Alaska
~ zoe 1s-fIaI ne follows
and is surprising when taken in con
nection with the small number of per-
sons paying liquor tax under the Terri
toriaI law: Rectifers 2, recall liquor
dealers $50, wholesale liquor dealers s.,
dealers in leaf tobacco IL, dealers in
manufactured tobacco II, manufactur-
ers of cigars 2, retail dealers IN malt
liquors 9, wholesale dealers in malt liz
uors 3. retail dealers in le0marSarine
1. wholesale dealers in oleomargarine 2.
bankers s. billiard tables and bowling
alleys 40, brokers, stocks and bonds,
etc. 81. brokers', commercial 9, *
custom house u. pawnbrokers ], pro-
prietors of exhibitions not otherwise
provided for ). proprietors of theaters'
museums and concert halls q; total ~.
The number of gallons of spirits rec
titled during the year was 1l,521. The
production of fsrmented liquors in the
Territory during the same tenn
TO 1,OS1 barrels. During ere
same time two cigar factories were OPP
Grated in the Territory. using 4,To2
pounds of tobacco, and manufacturing
therefrom 77,7OO cigars.
Hawaii also contributed $1.024 for AK
on oleomargarine of which the whole
salers paid $3.50.
OF the registration of Chinese IN Ila-
vail, Commissioner Yerkes says; IN
accordance with the authority granted
by the act of Congress-, approved Ma
>. 1892. as amended by act OF Nov D.
1898. and extended by the act of April
80. 1900. providing for the registration
of Chinese in the Hawaiian a
blank certificates of residence, applica-
lions and records were prepared ana
forwarded to the collector AZ Honolulu.
District of Hawaii, TO enable him u
comply with the provisions Of said acis.
The work OF registration was com
menced on February l, and completed
on the 18th of June. 1901. Certificates
of registration were issued to 2S.9zo
residing within the Hawaiian
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