The Hawaiian Archipelago - Six Months Among The Palm Groves, Coral Reefs, And Volcanoes Of The Sandwich Islands By Isabella L. Bird
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What May Be Termed The Per Capita Taxes Are, An Annual Poll Tax Of
One Dollar Levied On Each Male
Inhabitant between the ages of
seventeen and sixty, an annual road tax of two dollars upon all
persons between seventeen
And fifty, and an annual school tax of two
dollars upon all persons between twenty-one and sixty. There is a
direct tax upon property of .5 per cent. upon its valuation, and
specific taxes of a dollar on every horse above two years old, and a
dollar and a half on each dog. Of the $206,000 raised by internal
taxes during the last biennial period, the horses paid $50,000, the
mules $6,000, and the dogs $19,000!
The indirect taxation in the shape of customs' duties amounted to
$350,000 in the same period. The poor Hawaiian does not know the
blessing of a "Free Breakfast Table."
The islands are large importers. The value of imported goods paying
duties was $1,437,000 in 1873, on which the Hawaiian Treasury
received $198,000 as customs' duties. Twenty-five thousand dollars'
worth of ale, porter, and light wines, and thirty thousand dollars'
worth of spirits, show that the foreign population of 6,000 is more
than sufficiently bibulous. The Chinamen, about 2,000 in number,
are, or ought to be, responsible for $13,000 worth of opium; and the
$34,000 worth of tobacco and cigars is doubtless distributed pretty
equally over all the nationalities. Twenty-one thousand gallons of
spirits were imported in 1873.
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