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IE —Trapr anv Surrrrna oe was a (For Report for 1910-11, #¢0 No. 690.) “6 : TI ALea station a ~ - B que Acrixe Countrssroner to TIE SecRETARY oF STATE. 5 IV.—Epucation eases insioinas’ 5 ™ oy Commissioner's Office, Berbera, 22nd August, 1912. V.GovennMent INSTITUTIONS oe eas Iuave the honour to transmit herewith the Annual Report soe oa the Somaliland Protectorate for the year ended on tho 3st March, 1912. VI—Ponick AND JUDICIAL STATISTIC 4. = nH Thave, &., i G. F. Arcuer. } VILAVIvAL BPATISTICN ee His Majesty's Principal Secretary of State for the Colonies. VEIL —Terroraris ee ow il FN | 405” , u-w), 2) We a0478 sn, 125 &90. 1012. DES, Ag eea tg, 4 COLONIAL REPORTS—ayny, AL, REPORT ON THE SOMALILAND PRoTHG BOOK FOR THE YEAR wig Bay I.—FINANCTAL, ‘The revenue collected durin, . Fs th to £32,572, exceeding by £1yr10 the reves TeTieW oy e for the jute p year, and showing a surplus ove ; The figures for thy ‘last. five efamate of £6,109, "eg comparison :— re appended 1906-1907 ‘ ® 907-1908 1908-1909 aoe 1909-1910 son 1910-1911 31/384 1911-1912 30,862 32,572 Customs receipts are responsi ; Protectorate Revenue. ponsible for some fourths of y, Compared with the returns for 191 L 0.19 1912 show increases under the et the figures for 1 Customs, £945; Port and Harbour ‘Dues, sig, eres n ae M £155 Licences aay Internal Revenae, £501; Fees of Court or Office, £65; Telegn Decreases occurred under the following head: Telegraphs, £25; Miscell Soe dae is Telegraph fscellaneous Receipts, £497; Uneines Under Customs, imports of rice, American i aide cotton clothing, European white Le eat mae copa imports of sugar, sundry cotton piece gods daa and hardware decreased. ‘The exports of sheep and goat dix, hides, guano, pearls, mother-of-pearl, gum, sheep, and goaisil thiow ‘on increase, but exports of ghee (clarified bat) aly (eiransit from Abyssinia), fibre, ostrich feathers, and att Show a. decrease, ‘The increase in Tarbour Dues is altsuil seothe increase in the import of rice, ‘The opening to th phy 10 the wireless service and the traffic between ships and Ae ane witations caused the increase noted under“ Telegri’ Berbera eit under Miscellaneous Receipts may be attisle® The dee at in the year under review the sale of surpies Gm ine stores was very much less than in the previous Fel" the year 1911-1912, was 188 The total expenditure for i 4 being £24,378 less than the amount expended in 1910011 With three exceptions, the increases in esrendiut paratively small and d¢ mr SIS various heads were com ad ise «Services of # jer Miscellaneous Service Sci comment, An increase und! fs attributable to the payment of comp yensation ~ ae 12, o | der Special Military on opment, COMPAPE., gocount of thy disband cre O16 Tument of the Dew Taian contingent, wile © orks Extraordinary, m Jer Public Works aor kot, y be M0 af the old 1,380 wad eae Of building of a new Customs Boni eee were Snbted 1° Jn the previous Fear 20 new graph ofc er the following heads e104, This is attributable to the payment in ‘gratuities to retrenched officials not recurring in DLs sdminitration, £684, which is due to savings effected sie talamation of the ‘police force. am g3,g3, to be attributed to pay ita, OY passages of military ofcers jgiL1912. jitary Abn 3 Jat most of Shales inet in 1910-1911, an Spins paid in 1911-1912. hhich ig really the capital non-recurring qelegraphs, £3,834, wh : { the wireless installation, while the sum expended, ents in 1910-1911 not recurring in jrmal, £31,490, which is accounted for by. the ‘ag for abnormal military expenditure id there were only a few outstanding charge o! ISD, sepresents the annual recurring expenditure, ‘he following table shows the total expenditure for the last fie years:— — | vara. | se, | sso | 1910-11. | 1911-12. |} — . £ £ £ £ Expenditure 105,201 | 134,534 | 192,688 | 99,223 785 eee de ae have been no important changes in taxation The total assets on Ist April, 1912, wore £22 i 0 + » 662, us aga aaa on Ist April, 1911, ‘The liabilities amounted to arcs. dering an exces of ast over liabilities of £18.04 Against tam of 6,87 hao bem appropriied in tho estimator ie in the reduction of the grant-in-aid for this 0 , urrency.—The currency of the Somali Reagtec es xy of the Somaliland Protectorate is ‘pee Inia rupee, few Government af Tala notes ee ia sti if Bo eat oe re i : pris Gans doing busines in the Protectorate, but . Cowasjee Dinshaw and Brothers accept , — EE