TJIE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 4TH APRIL, 1896.
COLONY OF HONGKONG.
315
REVENUE.
Amount Estimated.
Total Revenue.
RETURN OF REVENUE AND EXPENDITURE DURING THE YEAR ENDED 31ST DECEMBER, 1895.
More than Less than Estimated. Estimated.
EXPENDITURE,
Amount
Total
More than Less than Estimated. Expenditure. Estimated. Estimated.
$
LIGHT DUES,
LICENCES AND INTERNAL REVENUE NOT OTHERWISE SPE-
96,000
$ 107,315.91
G.
$ c. 11,315.01
$ C.
CIFIED:-
Arms Ordinance,.....
200
Assessed Taxes,
370,000
230.00 404,103.75
30.00
34,105.15
Auctioneers' Liceuces,
1,800
2.100.00
300.00
Billiard Tables and Bowling Alleys Licences,
1,100
1,000,00
100.00
Boarling-house Licences,
175
2.193.75
Boat Licences,...
5.850
6,123.25
2,018.75 278.25
Cargo Boat Licences...
104,300
11,425,00 1,125.00
Harbour Master's Department,
Charge on Account of Public Debt, Pensions,
Governor and Legislature,
Colonia Secretary's Department, Audit Department,.... Treasury,....
Public Works Department,.... Post Office,
Registrar General's Department,
$ 114,710
$ 110,374.21
0. $
---
$ 4,335,79
0.
94,000
112,776.97
18,776.97
41339
33.276
44,053.36 33,333.39
2,714.36
109.39
19.0001
8,678.89
1,321.11
22.700 |
26,205.04
3,505.04
88,695
85.417.66
3,248.34
179.776
194,240.27 14,464.27
22.333|
17,099.41 62,321 64,250.24
5,233.39
5,935.24
Carriage, Chair, &c.. Licences,
40,000
42,308.00
2,308.00
Lighthouses,
15,388
15.563.34
Chinese Passenger Ships Licences,
400
325.00
75,00
Observatory,
13,237
13.433.55
175.34 196.55
Chinese Undertakers' Licences,
160
160.00
Stamp Office.
4328
4,027,40
Dog Licences,
2,500
2,370.50
129.50
Botanical and Afforestation Department,
18,770
17,316.83
300.60 1,423.17
Emigration Brokers' Licences,.....
1,200
1,000.00
200.00
Legal Departments,
68,882|
78,754,83
9,572.83
Fines.
22,150
36,229.03
Forfeitures.
1,150
4,149.06
14,079.03 2,999.00
Ecclesiastical,
2.200
1,830.00
370.00
Education,
64,170
60,110.24
4,029,76
Hawkers' Licences,
5,200
6,397.00
397.00
Medical Departments,
65,994!
74,291.62
8,297.62
Junk Licences,
25,000
31.534.50
6,534.50
Magistracy,
25,232
21,413.12
3,818.88
Marine Store Dealers' Licences,
900
2,745,00
1,845.00
Marriage Licences...
300
331,00
31.00
Police,
Gaols,...
227,547
217,451,54
10,005.46
54.951
51,125.66
3,825.34
Money Changers' Licences,
040
535.00
5.00
Fire Brigade,
20,098 17,169.30
2,928.70
Optum Monopoly,
l'awnbrokers' Licences.
Shooting Licences,
295,133 39,000 100
295,133.34
.34
Sanitary Department,
74,676
84.082,10
9,406.10
---
39,000.00
110.00
10.00
Charitable Allowances,
Transport,
5.200
3,953.16
1,214.84
2,000
4,743.65
2,743.65
Spirit Licences,
67,500
Stamps,
185,000
Steam-Launch Licences,
2,500
65,143.50 206,040.48 1,229.50
2,356.60
Miscellaneous Services,
150,707 232.243.49
81,536.49
*
21,040.48
-
Military Expenditure,
396,000
1,271.50
Public Works Recurrent,
366.156,71 164,500 170,284.99 5,781.98
29,843.29
FEES OF COURT OR OFFICE, PAYMENTS FOR SPECIFIC PUR-
POSES, AND REIMBURSEMENTS IN AID:-
Bills of Health,
2.200
Births and Deaths, Registration of..
Cargo Boat Certificates,
110 1,600
Cemetery Burials,
600
1,932.00 102.15 1,951.00 968.21
268.00
7.85
351.00 368.21
Cemetery Fees from Public Cemeteries for Chinese,
2,200
1,475.60
724.40
Chinese Gazette, Sale of
50
Companies, Registration of
1,200
45.00 2,521.25
5.00
1.324.25
Convict Labour and other items,
Deeds, Registration of .....
3,000
4,720.75 1,726.75
Discharge of Crews and Seamen,
7,500
8.622.00 1,122,00
Examination of Masters, &c.,
2,090
2.020.00
70.00
Fces of Court,......
16,000
16,064.60
61.50
Fees on Grant of Leases,
400
$70.00
470,00
Gaol Expenses,-Recovery from Diplomatic, Naval and Mi-
litary Departments, Seamen and Debtors,...
+
**
Gunpowder, Storage of......
Householders, Registration of
3,800 1,200
23,114.52 1,209.25
Imperial Post Office, Contribution from
19,314,32 9.23
***
Lock Hospital, Gent-in-Aid from Admiralty,.
Medical Examination of Emigrants,
21,000
21,612.25
Medical Registration Fees,
10
Medical Treatment of Patients in the Civil Hospital,
Official Administrator and Trustee,..
1,000
Official Signatures, .....
300
5,552.98 271.00
612.25
10.00
4,552.88
29.00
---
Printed Forms, Sale of
100
292.30
182,50
Private Moorings and Buoys, lent for
2,520
2,640,00
120.00
Queen's College, Fees from Scholars,
Registry Fees,........
300
249.00
51.00
Refund of Police Pay,
***
Refund Cost of Police and other Stores,......
Shipping Crews and Seainen..
8,500
9,716.40 1,216.40
Sick Stoppages from Police Force,.
+
Steam-Launches, Surveyor's Certificate,
1,500
1.675.00
75.00
Subsistence Money of Seamen and others in Victoria Gaol,
Survey of Steam-Ships,.
10,000
9,240.21
::
759.79
School for Girls, Fecs from Scholars,
Sunday Cargo-Working Permits,.
7,000
Trade Marks, Registration of
900
11,600.00 662.61
4,000.00
337.36
POST OFFICE :——
Postage,....
185,000
244,449.71 59,449.71
REST OF GOVERNMENT PROPERTY, LAND AND HOUSES ; —-
Buildings,
360
2,225.80 1,865.30
Cattle Sued,
2,580
2,220.00
360.00
Laundries,
Leased Lands,.
Lands not Lensed,
Markets,
330 200.000 6,088 62.000
350.00 230,803.46
20.00 30,803.46
8,419.01 63.574.35
2,331.01
1,574.35
Piers,......
3,500
4,367.09
$67.09
Stone Quarries,
15,000
8,100.00
6,900.00
Slaughter House,
40,000
40,440.00
440.00
Sheep and Pig Depôts,
12.000
4,883.80
INTEREST,
30,000
5,936,7$
..
7,116.20 24,063.22
MISCELLANEOUS RECEIPTS:-
Condemned Stores, &c.,
1,000
2,032.35
1,032.35
Interest for use of Furniture at Government House,
160
Night Soil Contracts,.
Other Miscellaneous Receipts,
Profit on Subsidiary Coins,
1,410.00 62,979.88 70,979.88
80,000 152,600.88 72,600.88
TOTAL, exclusive of Land Sales and Water Account,...$ 1,942,526 2,275,577.69 377,396.61 44,814.92
LAND SALES,
WATER ACCOUNT-Ord. 16 of 1890,
23,280
144.10 24,690.00
5.60
12,000
TOTAL........
2,043,031 2,131,530.96 | 163,518,83
72,018.87
61,000 130.471.79 69,471.79
Public Works, Extraordinary,
24,670 $37,842.06813,172.05
76,000 80,179.41 4,179.41
L
$2,079,5262,486.228.89 431,547.91 44,844.92
TOTAL,....
2,067,701 2,972,373.01 976,690.88; 72,018.87
*Not including appropriations in aid $49,047.55 which have been deducted from the Expenditure.
Public Works Extraordinary chargeable against the New Loan, $
318,500 180,970.87
131,529.13
Treasury, Hongkong, 18th March, 1896.
A. M. THOMSON, Acting Colonial Treasurer.
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