Excerpt from Report on the War Finance, 1906 Financial Year 1904 - 5, and yen 000 in 1905-6. The Government, moreover, proposed to reduce local finances and endeavoured, by restricting local taxation, to lighten, on the one hand, as much as possible, the burden imposed upon the nation by increased taxation and on the other, to obtain abundant sources of revenue to meet the expenditures connected with the war. Though the funds under special accounts had been established as capital sums necessary for the working of such accounts, the Govern ment recognised, in view of the necessity of defraying enormous war expenses, the propriety of employing them as a source of revenue for those expenditures and diverted and used the said funds as far as was permitted by their respective special accounts. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.