The Archive · 1910

The Salt Tax Farm

With reference to the salt tax farm province a Censor ized the Throne, praying that strict regelations for the operating of the system may be drawn up by the Ministry, in order to prevent abuses and urging that the price of salt should not be raised by!more than one candareen a catty as the limit, He also suggests that as the royalty of Tle. 12,000,000 more than covers the deficit' by the abolition of the gambling tax by Tls. 2,000,000, this surplus should be retained in that province for the founding of industries to provide means of living for the unemployed. The Memorialist also prayed that it should be placed on record that farm for " gambling tax should be tabooed for ever.

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