And there has been received from Foreign Imports 396,418.15
   " " " Fines, Penalties, and Costs 47,289.13
   " " " Internal Commerce 98,982.51
   " " " Taxes 215,962.51
   " " " Fees and Perquisites 22,194.45
   " " " Government Realizations 124,071.37
   " " " Miscellaneous Sources 60,038.23
          
                                       ----------- $964,956.35
          
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                                                 $1,026,536.55

The expenditures during two years are detailed thus in the same report: 

For Civil List . . . . . . . . $50,000.00 " Permanent Settlements . . . . 18,000.00 " Legislature and Privy Council . . 15,281.63 " Department of Judiciary . . . . 73,562.61 " " Foreign Affairs and War 98,028.24 " " Interior . . . . 396,806.41 " " Finance . . . . 141,345.29 " " Attorney-general . 88,412.17 " Bureau of Public Instruction . . 88,347.79
                                        ----------- $969,784.14
Balance on hand March 31, 1872 . . . . . . . $56,752.41
          
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                                        $1,026,536.55

The internal taxes include the property tax, which is quite low, one and a half per cent.  Every male adult pays a poll tax of one dollar, a school tax of two dollars, and a road tax of two dollars.  The following is the detail of the internal taxes for the two years 1870-72: 

Real Estate and Personal Property $97,685.11
Horses . . . . . . . . . 53,006.00
Dogs . . . . . . . . . . 22,271.40
Mules . . . . . . . . . . 6,140.00
Carriages . . . . . . . . 3,125.00
Poll . . . . . . . . . . 27,841.00
Native Seamen . . . . . . . 5,894.00
                                  -----------
                                  $215,962.51

Among the licenses the monopoly of opium selling brings the Government $22,248, a prodigious sum when it is considered that there are but 2500 Chinese in the Islands; these being the chief, though not the only consumers.  There is, besides, a duty of ten per cent. on the opium when imported, and the merchant must make his profit.  I had the curiosity to look a little into the opium consumption.  It is said that its use is slowly spreading among the natives, particularly where these are employed with Chinese on the plantations.  But the quantity used by the Chinese themselves is prodigious.  I was shown one man, a cook, whose wages, fourteen dollars per month, were entirely spent on opium; and whose master supplied the poor creature with clothes, because he had nothing left out of his pay.  In other cases the amount spent was nearly as great.