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III. CONSTITUTION AND ADMINISTRATION OF SWEDEN.
The fees accruing from the distillation and sale of spirits are extremely
heavy. Thus, the excise duty on spirits during the quinquennial periods of
1871/1900 amounted on a yearly average to 13-52, 13-26,13’72, 14-24, 15-03,
and 18-5 5 million kronor respectively (a krona = 1-10 shilling), and the
fees for sale (together with the profits of the Bolags) during the same
periods came to 2"27, 5 a l, 5-47, 6 27, 7-40, and 10-77 million kronor
respectively. If the duty on imported spirits be taken into account, the totals
will be 17-95, 19-93, 20-54, 21*76, 24-06, and 31-46 million kronor
respectively, and in 1900 the total amounted to 35-10 million kronor, of which
20-26 millions were excise duty; 2-44 millions customs duty; and fees for
sale together with profits made over by the Bolags, 12-4 0 million kronor.
Beading-room of the yBolag > in Gothenburg.
With regard to the distribution of these considerable sums, much contrc
versy has arisen; the regulations now in force are as follows. Fees for mann
facture and custom dues go to the State (as has always been the case). Fe«
for sale and the Bolags’ profits may partly be retained by each town individually
which share is increased if the town adopts the Gothenburg system; the remaind(
as well as the fees for sale in the country communities are divided, according 1
very complicated principles (about which see the law on the sale of spirits of Mt
24, 1896) between the County Councils, the Agricultural Societies, ai
all the country communities — generally in proportion to their population. Durii
the five years of sale 1895/1900, the County Councils in this way received 1
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