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TRADE AND CUSTOMS.

In comparison T/ith the Budget estimates the Collections
were.-

Budget head. Estimated Actual Gain Loss
collection

Customs and
Import yard 600,000/-
Extra Khanchieh • • 100,000/-.
700, (JOU/- 619,690/- 80,310/-
Vehicle Licenses 2,500/- 4,897/- 2,397/-
Pearling Licenses . 35,000/- 51,050/- 16,650/-

Craft registrations 3,000/- 3,297/- 297/-
Miscellaneous.
Tobacco tax • • 2,000/- 6,189/- 4,189/-

Totals 7,42,000/- 6,85,723/- 23,533/- 80,310/-

Total losses Bs 80310^-
Gains 23
deficiency. 56,777/-
■nunaia
In regard to the above, the deficiency in the Customs
receipts can be attributed partly to the general trade
depression, which has continued after 134-9, and has brought
down the market value of most commodities to an excep­
tionally low figure and therefore the ad valorem duty
collected thereon, partly to two bad pearling seasons
when the catches have been less than normal, and the
sales of pearls effected at very reduced prices resulting
in the lack of capital for general trading, and partly
to a situation arising from a political arrangement rela­
ting to transhipment of cargo at sea without payment of
any dues to the State.
Ihen, in Dhpl Eaj 1349, the rate of Xhanohia upon bag