The earth and its inhabitants The earth and its inhabitants .. earthitsinhabita386recl Year: 1883 446 BELGIUM. not exceed 98,000 acres. These common lands, however, are being perpetually encroached vipon by rich capitalists. The towns of Belgium now enjoy the advan- tage resulting from a total abolition of all octroi duties. Up to 1860, when these objectionable imposts were done away with, every town formed a state within the State, anxious to 'protect' its own industry by levying heavy dues upon every article imported from beyond. The octroi yielded about half a million sterling annually, wh
The earth and its inhabitants The earth and its inhabitants .. earthitsinhabita386recl Year: 1883 446 BELGIUM. not exceed 98,000 acres. These common lands, however, are being perpetually encroached vipon by rich capitalists. The towns of Belgium now enjoy the advan- tage resulting from a total abolition of all octroi duties. Up to 1860, when these objectionable imposts were done away with, every town formed a state within the State, anxious to 'protect' its own industry by levying heavy dues upon every article imported from beyond. The octroi yielded about half a million sterling annually, whilst the share of the indirect taxes paid to the communes instead amounts to more than a million a year—so great has been the increase of national wealth.* The following table gives the political divisions of Belgium and their popula- tion :— Area. Populition, Population, Inhabit Province. Capital. Sq. m. 18f;6. 1876 {31st Dec.) toaSq 'West Flanders . . Brugge (Bruges) . . 1,249 639,709 684,468 547 East Flanders . . . Ghent (Gent) . . . 1,158 801,872 863,458 747 Antwerp . . . . . Antwerp (Antwerpen) 1,094 474,145 538,381 494 Limburg . . . . Hasselt 932 199,856 205,237 221 Brabant . . . . Brussels (Bruxelles) . 1,268 820,179 936,062 737 Hainaut . . . . Mons (Bergen) . . . 1,437 847,775 956,354 665 Namur . . . . Namirr (Namen) . . 1,413 302,719 315,796 223 Liège . . . . . . Liège (Luik, Liittich) 1,117 5-i6,666 632,228 565 Luxemburg . . . Arlon (Arel) .... 1,705 196,173 204,201 120 Belgium . . . Brussels 11,373 4,839,094 5,336,185 459 * In 1870 the ' communes ' had an income of £4,539,000, and a debt of £8,221,300 ; the provinces, in 1874, had an income of £407,500.
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