The Internal Revenue is levied on the transfer of landed property, by licenses under the Wines, Beer, and Spirit Act, to sell by auction, to keep dogs, to collect bark, cut timber, cut or remove sandalwood from the Waste Lands of the Crown, for boats and boatmen, and for boats and ships engaged in the pearl shell fishery, also from judicial fines. Fees are also taken at the different public offices, for registry, copies of official documents, applications, searching records, taking affidavits, &c., in the Sheriff's Office, the Small Debts' Court, and the Insolvent Court.
Industries.—The progress of the different colonial industries will appear from the following comparative tables. The agricultural produce was gathered from the area of acres under cultivation, thus distributed:—
| Year 1849. |
Year 1876. | |
| Albany or Plantagenet … | 258 | 521 |
| Champion Bay … | … | 1314 |
| Fremantle … | … | … |
| Greenough and Irwin … | … | 13017 |
| Murray … | 473 | 738 |
| Perth … | 158 | 1512 |
| Sussex … | 216 | 1050 |
| Swan … | 1747 | 3390 |
| Toodyay … | 873 | 9113 |
| Wellington … | 595 | 3006 |
| York … | 1559 | 8991 |
| Williams … | … | 3276 |
| Totals … | 6027 | 45933 |
The proportions of the different crops cultivated were, in acres, wheat 18,769, barley 6,245, oats 1461, rye 731, potatoes 370, maize 70, vineyard 784, kitchen garden 628, beans, &c. 19, hay or green crop 16,856, from
