SHANGHAI
761
The Revenue for 1907 was the highest on record. All the headings except Wharf- age Dues showed an improvement and in the aggregate exceeded the Budget estimate by Tis. 30,127, and the income for 1906 by Tls. 117,034, or approximately 6 per cent. The Ordinary Expenditure for the same year was Tls. 1,611,038 and was divided among the different departments as under:
Police Tls. 440,679.91, Jail Department Tls. 45,013.41... Health Department, including Hospitals and Markets... Public Works, General Tls. 96,946.51, Parks Tls. 30,091.01
Tls. 485,693.32
108,658.93
Do. Lighting Tls. 71,541.04, Buildings Tls. 47,526.78 Do. Creeks & Drainage Tls. 56,114.27, Roads Tls. 226,276.42) Stock and Stores...
528,496.03
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73,926.82
Secretariat Tls. 135,233.81, Legal and General Tls. 35,446.51 Interest Tls. 71,245.52, Repayment of Debentures Tls. 31,600.00 Volunteers Tls. 36,641.63, Fire Dept. Tls. 30,295.05 ... Educational Grants Tls. 32,961.54, Band Tls. 40,836.21
170,680.32
102,845,52
66,936.68
73,800.75
Tls. 1,611,038.37
The surplus of ordinary income over expenditure, namely Tls. 372,393 and Tls. 250,000 raised by debentures, plus a deficit of Tls. 201,513 carried to 1908 was expended in new works, mostly roads and land for same, and new bridges.
The Ordinary Municipal Revenue for 1908 was estimated at Tls. 2,429,920 and the Ordinary Expenditure at Tls. 2,041,869; the Extraordinary Revenue_including estimated surplus of Tls. 388,051 and Tls. 400,000 to he raised by debentures, at Tls. 813,051, and the Extraordinary Expenditure, including Tls. 180,000 for purchase of Land for making roads, and Tls. 201,513 deficit from 1907, at Tls. 827,493. In consequence of contemplated public works it was decided at the ratepayers meeting to raise the land tax from five-sixteenths to six-tenths of one per cent. and the general municipal rate from 10 to 12 per cent.
The Revenue of the French Concession for 1907 was Tls. 557,021. The sources from which it was derived were:-
Land Tax, five-tenths of 1 per cent. Foreign House Tax, 8 per cent. ... Native House Tax, 12 per cent.... Impôts extérieurs
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Licences, principally jinrickshaws and wheelbarrows Taxes
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Rent of Quays and Jetties and Wharfage Dues.....
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Electric Lighting Tls. 8,206.06, Water Supply Tls. 46,536.89... Slaughter Houses Tls. 10,462.08, Miscellaneous Tls. 36,012.95...
On account Sale of Electric Works and Sundries
...Tls. 42,207.86
16,655.71 116,076.37
7,317.90
125,318.01
34,316.59
67,776.15
54,742.95
46,476.75
46,133.15
Tls. 557,021.44
The Expenditure of the French Municipality in 1907 amounted to Tls. 649,648 and was divided as under:-
Secretariat (Staff and General Charges)
Public Works
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M'pal Undertakings, Lighting Tls. 2,390.93, Water Tls. 10,468.14 Public Works Extraordinary
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...Tls. 33,700.68
120,687.85
12,859.07
229,848.57
Police Department
105,634.72
39,144.46
Medical, Sanitary, Hospitals Tls. 33,151.66, Schools Tls. 8,268.06. Fire Brigade Tls. 10,791.10, Tramways Tls. 4,231.92 Interest Tls. 24,628.52, Sundries Tls. 26,501.64
41,419.72
15,023.02
51,330.16
Tls. 649,648.25
Lighting Tls. 19,911.18, Water Tls. 19.233.28 ...
The Revenue for 1908, including the balance of Tls. 158,906 from 1907, and proceeds of sale of Land, Tls. 30,000, was estimated at Tls. 683,287, and the Expenditure including Tls. 199,735 for the budget de prévisions, at Tls. 683,003.
POPULATION
The Foreign population increased rapidly up to 1865, but declined considerably during the next ten years. The census of 1865 gave the number of foreign residents in the three Settlements as 2,757, army and navy (British) 1,851, shipping 981, a total of 5,589. In 1870 the total in the Anglo-American Settlement was 1,666; in 1876, 1,673 ;. in 1880, 2,197; in 1885, 3,673; in 1890, 3,821 ; in 1895, 4,684. By the census of 26th May, 1900,