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The rule is that on the receipt side all bona fide
receipts, from whatever source, shall be fully exhibited,
 also all items of revenue gross, no abatement
being made for expenses; and that all bona fide
charges, for whatever purpose, whether for defence or
administration, for concerns managed by the state,
or for the raising of the revenue itself, should be
exhibited on the expenditure side.

The revenue, as distinguished from the revenue
and receipts, has been estimated as follows :—
Land ... 21 millions sterling.
Tributes iC.
Excise
Assessed T
Customs
Salt
Opium
Stamps

Total

do.

This was the revenue in 1880,

Chief Source of Income.

The chief source of income possessed by the
British government is the land, Strange, as it may
seem, we find in India—a country which has for ages
been subjected to the worst form of arbitrary rule—
the. widest recognition of one of the broadest