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SHANGHAI
The Ordinary Expenditure for the same year was Tls. 1,987,652, and was divided among the different departments as under :---
Police, Tls. 614,559.23; Jail, Tls. 40,247.39, Stock; Tls. 29,835.43... Tls. 684,642.05 Public Works, General, Tls. 117,072.50, Parks, Tls. 36,290.74...
Do.
Lighting, Tls. 76,953.58, Buildings, Tls. 35,312.51
569,834.30
...
205,492 79 202,961.52 134,385.32
116,196.24
74,139.34
Do. Creeks & River, Tls. 41,233.83, Drainage, Tls. 35,570.63 Do. Roads, Tis. 199,075.18, Stock and Stores, Tls. 28,325,33... Interest, Tls. 85,992.79, Redemption of Debentures, Tls. 119,500.00... Secretariat, Tls. 147,430,45, Legal and General, Tls. 55,531.07 Health Department, including Hospitals and Cemeteries Volunteers, Tls. 67,198.38, Fire Dept., Tls. 48,997,86... Educational Grants, Tls. 32,819.64, Band, Tĺs. 41,319.70
...
Tls. 1,987,651.56
The surplus of ordinary income over expenditure, namely, Tls. 415,513 and Tls. 400,000 raised by debentures, was expended in new works, mostly municipal buildings, roads and land for same, and new bridges.
The Ordinary Municipal Revenue for 1909 was estimated at Tls. 2,469,700 and the Ordinary Expenditure at Tls. 2,245,334; the Extraordinary Revenue including estimated surplus of Tls. 224,366 and Tls. 400,000 to be raised by debentures, at Tls. 634,428, and the Extraordinary Expenditure, including Tls. 148,950 for purchase of Land for municipal buildings, and Tls. 120,000 for land for making roads, at Tls. 633,625.
The Revenue of the French Concession for 1908 was Tls. 577,169. The sources from which it was derived were:-
Native House Tax, 12 per cent.
Licences, principally vehicles and opium divans Land Tax, five-tenths of 1 per cent.
Rent of Quays and Jetties and Wharfage Dues ... Interest, Tls. 8,093.61; Water Supply, Tls. 35,235.97
Taxes
.
...
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Tls. 140,669.21
130,122.37
71,815.24
59,096.47
43,329.58
35,023.57
33,353.57
...
...
22,759.28
11,481.70
29,517.78
Slaughter, Houses, Tls. 9,916.07; Miscellaneous, Tls. 23,437.50 Foreign House Tax, 8 per cent.
Impóts extérieurs
Sale of Land and Sundries
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TIS. 577,168.77
The Expenditure of the French Municipality in 1908 amounted to Tls. 559,700
and was divided as under:
Police Department
Budget de prévisions Public Works Extraordinary
..
...Tls.132,634.37 115,255.05
Public Works
112,773.46
Medical and Sanitary, 23,977.21; Hospitals, Schools, etc., Tls. 35,639.09 Tls. 59,616.30 Secretariat (Staff and General Charges)
37,404.89
...
Lighting, Tls. 20,667.42; Water, Tls. 13,407.08... Interest, Tls. 29,417.81, Sundries, Tls. 38,523.36...
34,074.50
67,941.17
Tls. 559,699.74
The Revenue for 1909, including the balance of Tls. 51,375.45 from 1908, and fixed deposit in bank, Tls. 125,000, was estimated at Tls. 721,356, and the Expenditure, including Tls. 202,600 for the budget de prévisions, at Tls. 720,911.
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, there were in both Settlements a total of 7,396 foreigners; 1,436 in the English division, 4,510 in Hongkew, 828 in Western district, Outside Roads and Pootung, and 622 in the French Settlement, an increase of 45 per cent. during the latter five years, against 23 per cent, during the previous five. In the next five years the foreign population increased nearly seventy per cent. (over 80 per cent. in adults and 37 per cent. in children) A census (inclusive of the French Settlement) was taken on October 14th, 1905, when the total number of foreigners was 12,328; of these 6,144 were male adults 3,417 female adults, and 2,767 children (1,303 males and 1,464 females) against 3,181