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Annual 2,410,000.00 5,300,000.00 1,000,000.00 290,000.00 2,700,000.00 6,600,000.00 10,000,000.00 10,700,000.00 39,000,000.00 395,875.00
Monthly 200,833.33 441,666.66 83,333.33 24,166.66 225,000.00 550,000.00 833,333.33 891,666.67 3,250,000.00 32,989.55

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3,845,367.88 106,145.00
3,875,230.96 98,885.22

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209,997.25 667,920.00 111,674.30 31,681.30 536,970.00 1,251,313.75 2,697,578.00 1,378,600.00 6,885,734.60 26,625.00
169,776.45 552,825.00 106,488.45 21,206.70 195,212.40 551,870.00 940,979.00 1,611,500.co 4,149,858.00 106,500.0
202,602.50 538,815.00 118,332.85 25,109.10 176,560.80 523,220.90 780,244.00 1,809,500.00 4,174,385.15 99,215.93
214,092.05 460,440.co 126,717-35 19,727.80 222,616.80 490,317.50 669,475.00 1,514,501.00 3,717,887.50
139,410.50 18,825.10 355,908.00 638,253.75 1,189,593.00 1,691,000.00 4,705,217.90 74,656.50 4,237,273.80 74,407.65
241,517.55 430,710.00
957,110.00 1,442,500.00 4,009,531.05 42,600.00 3,780,608.47 42,458.00
846,915.00 1,474,500.00 4.226,513.00 38,340.00 4,016,065.51 38,212.20
821,845.00 1,512,500.00 3,985,736.95 37,275.00 3,748,206.80 37,150.75
746,671.00 1,695,500.00 4,516,152.55 39,405.00 4,211,337.72 39,273.65
844,106.00 1,918,000.00 4,633,302.20 38.340.00 4,348,574.23 38 212.20
656,250.00 1,589,000.00 4,467,058.30 35,487.07 4,161,475.74 35,368.78
266,320.00 1,437,000.00 3,419,428.70 56,445.00 3,099,084.27 56,256.85

219,460.30 370,560.00 132,620.65 18,044.80 209,122.80 660,112.50
224,112.85 370,530.00 146,079.85 17,816.30 316,434.00 830,125.00
221,665.50 411,495.00 145,906.45 17,629.00 185,376.00 669,320.00
269.793.35 561,330.00 155,011.40 23,732.50 331,936.80 732,177.50
297,038.20 765,945.0c 154,723.20 37,442.00 144,652.80 471,395.00
330,968.40 821,700.00 140,901.70 45 164.40 312,208.80 570,865.00
281,091.45 831,285.00 137,666.45 78,795 40 93,488.80 293,781.60
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REVENUE AND EXPENDITURE.

The following figures are interesting as showing the total of the Ordinary Receipts and Expenditure during the five years 1899-1903 as compared with the Estimates framed by the original Commission in 1898:

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With regard to the above Tables, it should be noted that, in the Statement of Revenue, profit on exchange is not taken into account; that is to say, receipts in gold francs are counted as the same number of drachmæ. This procedure is adopted because the profit on exchange is excluded from the original Commission's estimate of future Revenue, and if it were included in the Statement of actual Revenue here given an unfair comparison would result. On the other hand, any loss on exchange is included in the Statement of actual Expenditure and in the Commission's estimate of Expenditure for future years. In these circumstances the Tables are, of course, not entirely satisfactory; but as their object is a comparison, not of Revenue with Expenditure, but of actual Revenue and Expenditure with the Commission's estimates, the lesser evil has been chosen, and the Tables serve, at any rate, to show that the results attained have been much more favourable than was anticipated by the original Commission.

The following statistical information relating to Revenue and Expenditure, Imports and Exports and the rate of Exchange is partly taken from a valuable Report to the Foreign Office (published in March last), by Mr. H. P. Harvey, C.B., and partly furnished direct to the Council through his kindness.

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NOTE. (a) The produce of the Forced Currency Loan of 1885 not having been included at the time in the Receipts, the Government purport to rectify this omission by including in the Budget of each year a sum of 2,000,000 dr., representing the annual amortisation of the forced currency.

See Footnote under Expenditure, 1902, on the following page.

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