The Customs receipts seem to be
1
st quarter $ 6,730
The importation does not I apprehend begin till the summer
mining begins.
2
nd quarter 99,259
3
rd quarter 90,805.
The yearly revenue it may be conjectured will exceed £100,000.
The Revenue of 1866
(vide Blue Book Ref Reve & Expe) was 86,000£ & that of
1865 apparently (88,000£ + 25,000 =) £111,000.
If so I am afraid the Revenues will be very far short of the
$675,000 at which it seems to have been estimated (vide enclosures to
11760) as the receipts of the 2 first quarters of 1867 were only
$371,297.
The estimated expenditures (vide 11760) for 1867, (exclusive of
170,000 Temporary Loans) was 531,710—while the expenditure for the
three first quarters exclusive of repayment of Loans &c was
226,201—but this may have been & probably was because there
was no money to be had.