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SHANGHAI
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The surplus of ordinary income over expenditure, Tls. 269,264.97, and extraordinary income from various sources, including Tĺs. 400,000 raised by debentures, amounted together to Tls. 910,795.48 and the extraordinary expenditure for drainage, land, roads, and buildings to Tls. 1,008,277.79 leaving a deficit carried forward of Tls. 97,482.31.
The Ordinary Municipal Revenue for 1916 was estimated at Tls. 3,227,850 and the Ordinary Expenditure at Tls. 2,901,850; the Extraordinary Revenue, consisting of estimated surplus of Tls. 326,000 Miscellaneous Tls. 30,000 and Tls. 650,000 to be raised by debentures, at Tls. 1,006,000 and the Extraordinary Expenditure at Tls. 1,038,192.
The Revenue of the French Concession for 1915 was Tls. 798,789.35. The sources from which it was derived were:-
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Land Tax, five-tenths of 1 per cent.... Foreign House Tax, 8 per cent. Native House Tax, 12 per cent. Licences, principally vehicles...
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...Tls. 99,758.48
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47,722.83
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189,628.24
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264,273.82
Taxes, various
58,843.28
71,559.37
Slaughter-Houses
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16,126.79
Miscellaneous
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50,876.54
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Rent of Quays and Jetties, Wharfage Dues, Ground Rents, etc........
Tls. 798,789.35
The Expenditure of the French Municipality in 1915 amounted to Tls. 943,658.52 and was divided as under:—
Secretariat (Staff and General Charges)
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Tls. 44,946.02
Police Department
Public Works
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Medical and Sanitary
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Allowances and Donations
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170,791.09 240,752.44
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43,195.40
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30,120.83
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59,244.13
45,118.05
Lighting, Tls. 47,679.67, Fire Brigade, Tls. 11,564.46
Schools, Tls. 3,173.48, Telegraphs and Telephones, Tls. 11,944.57..... Volunteers, Tls. 1,204.33, Municipal Printing Office, Tls. 6,099.42... Miscellaneous Sundries Interest and Sinking Fund Public Works Extraordinary
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7,303.75
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13,173.17
91,576.14 197,437.50
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Tls. 943,658.52
The ordinary Revenue for 1916, including a balance of Tls. 42,674.99 from 1915, was estimated at Tls. 863,339.99 and the Expenditure at Tls. 857.518.00, and the Extraordinary Receipts, including balance of Tls. 87,618.50 from the 1914 Loan and a New Loan of Tls. 350,000, at Tls. 447,243.50 and the Extraordinary Expenditure at Tls. 334,225.
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; in 1900, 7,396; in 1905, 11,497. By the census of 15th October, 1910, there were in both Settlements a total of 15,012 foreigners; 1,356 in the British Settlement, now called Central District, 8,658 in Hongkew, now Northern and Eastern Districts, 3,522 in Western Dis- trict, Outside Roads and Pootung, and 1,476 in the French Settlement, an increase of 2174 per cent. during the latter five years, against 45 per cent. during the previous five. When the last census was taken in October, 1915, the number of foreigners in the two Settlements had grown to 20,924; 18,519 in the International Settlement and 2,405 in the French Settlement. The fluctuations in the foreign popula- tion have been very remarkable. Between 1870 and 1880 the number of adult males decreased, while in the next five years it increased by over fifty per cent. In the nine years, 1876 to 1885, the whole foreign population more than doubled, but in the next five years it showed an increase of only 148, of whom 144 were children. The increase has been mostly in the Hongkew district, where the population is now twelve times what it was in 1880, while during the same period the British Settlement has increased by only 41. While the foreign adult males have increased only about seven