Bill No. 154 (from the Senate), to incorporate Trans-Continental Assurance Company.-Mr. Carroll.

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Fiscal Year Coal Petroleum and Natural Gas Grazing Leases Sales of Land Total Revenue1918- 19 1919- 20 $ 366.504 73 336,524,69 445,254 21 400,085 95 345,750 69 $ 85,782 28 282,392 33 535,433 42 273,453 55 244,577 08 $ 66,511 50 78,822 76 79,479 52 60,535 20 70,665 14 $ 605,546 44 743,923 11 546,094 85 260,458 85 65,258 66 $ 1,124,344 95 1,441,662 89 1,606,262 00 994,533 55 726,251 o71920-21 1921- 22 1922- 23 § 1,894,120 27 $ 1,421,638 66 $ 356,014 12 $ 2,221,281 91 $ 5,893,054 96

Statement of expenses (including salaries) paid in various offices of the Department of the Interior, in the Province of Alberta, in connection with the collection of revenue from mines, petroleum wells, grazing lands, and sale of Crown Lands for the past five years. Name of Office 1918-19 1919-20 1920-21 1921-22 1922-23 Sub-total Total Direct Charges of CollectionCalgary Mining Office S 5,969 53 8 7,060 09 S 9,801 77 $ 9,631 97 $ 7,606 02 $ 40,069 38 $ 40,069 38Calgary Petroleum Office. . . Nil 2,685 26 7,741 10 8,152 27 9,861 89 28,440 52 28,440 52Calgary Grazing Lands Office 6,063 65 6,380 12 7,414 99 11,304 25 10,474 46 41,637 47 41,637 47Dominion Land Agencies... . Dominion Land Sub-Agen- 116,653 00 129,156 05 141,615 28 137,324 80 133,738 12 658,487 25 526,789 80(80%)cies 15,984 68 15,651 76 15,577 08 14,753 63 13,260 00 75,227 15 60,181 72 (80%)Totals $ 144,670 86 $ 160,933 28 8 182,150 22 $ 181,166 92 $ 174,940 49 $ 843,861 77 $ 697,118 89 Note:-The revenue derived from Coal, Petroleum and Natural Gas, Grazing Leases and Sales of land during the past five years in the Province of Alberta is 80% of the total revenue credited to that Province by-the Department of the Interior. The same percentage was therefore used as the basis upon which to reckon charges of collection in respect of the total expenditure incurred in the Land and Sub-Land Agencies within that Province. Questions

Memorandum bf Explanation-The total revenue derived by the Department of the Interior from the province of Alberta in connection with coal, petroleum and natural gas, grazing leases and sales of land for a period of five years is shown as 85,893,054.96 and the direct cost of collecting same as 8697,118.89 This cost of collection, however, does not take into account a number of indirect charges which ultimately should enter into the cost of administering the Dominion lands and other resources in Alberta and the collection of revenue. In connection with the above mentioned administration and collection of revenue, a proportional amount of the expenditure incurred by Land Patents, Mining Lands and Yukon, Timber and Grazing, Dominion Lands and Accounts branches should be charged against the Province of Alberta. This also applies to a proportion of the expenditure of officials of the department in Ottawa responsible for the administration of other branches and whose duties and jurisdiction have a bearing on the Department of the Interior activities in the province of Alberta. It is, however, impossible to estimate with any degree of accuracy the actual amount involved in these proportional charges and any figures which might be compiled could not in any way be looked upon as a true and correct statement of the case.