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THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 21ST APRIL, 1894.
GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.-No. 152.
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The following Return of the Revenue and Expenditure for 1893, including Receipts and Disbursements on account of the Colony by the Crown Agents in England, with the Comparative Statement for the years 1892 and 1893, is published.
Colonial Secretary's Office, Hongkong, 21st April, 1894.
COLONY OF HONGKONG.
By Command,
G. T. M. OBRIEN, Colonial Secretary.
REVENUE.
Amount Estimated.
Total Revenue.
RETURN OF REVENUE AND EXPENDITURE DURING THE YEAR ENDED 31ST DECEMBER, 1893.
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-
$7,000
$ 96,064.09
$ C. $ 9,064,00
C.
CIFIED:
Charge on Account of Public Debt, Pensions, ....
Governor and Legislature....
*
$ C.
C.
146,790
166,782.86 19,992.86
79,400
..
Arms Ordinance,...
200
Assessed TaxeH,
378,000
180.00 394,224.35
20.00
Colonial Secretary's Department,
86,706.79 7,306.79
$1,339 12,134.88 795.88
35,976 31,499.31
4,476.49
16,22455
Auctioneers' Licences,
Billiard Tables and Bowling Alleys Licences,
1,800 1,150
2,100,00
300.00
Audit Department,...
Treasury,
10,000
10,408.97
108.97
---
27,092)
22,527.21
4,561.76
1,150,00
Public Works Department,.
..........
93,119
84,459.29
8,659.71
Boarding-house Licences,
150
175.00
25.00
Post Office,
147,766
153,286.96
5,320.96
Boat Licences,
5,30)
8,661.0.9
3,361.00
Registrar General's Department,.
25,358
26,729.86 1,871.86
Cargo Boat Licences,
7,800
7,726.25
73.75
Harbour Master's Department,
60,115
5S,338.41
1,776.59
Carriage, Chair, &c., Licences,..
98,600
40,741.10
2,1+1.10
Lighthouses,
15,268
13.815.96
1,152.04
Chinese Passenger Ships Licences,
300
Chinese Undertakers' Licences,
Dog Licences,
130
410.00 140,00
1,221.60
t
Emigration Brokers' Licences,.. Fines,
1,000
1,400,00
110,00 10.00 1,221.60 $150.00
Observatory,
12,716
18,247,10
531.10
Stamp Office,
4,328
4,283.56
94.44
Botanical and Afforestation Department,
21,642
21,141,34
500.66
Legal Departments,
70,508
71.227.23
719.23
25,000
21,979.36
3,020.64
Ecclesiastical,
2.200
1,815.00
385.00
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Forfeitures,
1,000
2,409.61 1,409.61
Education,
78,767
78,213.34
553.16.
Hawkers' Licences,
4,500
5,680.50 1,130.50
8
Medical Departments,
83,271
82,023.55
1,217.45
Junk Licences,
21,000
25,341.35
1,341.35
Magistracy,
25,172
21,341.53
3,830.42
n
Marine Store Dealers' Licences,
900
795.00
105.00
Police,
228,992
222,031,85
6,860.15
Marriage Licences,....
400
334.00
66,00
Gaol,
54.748.81 58,881
4,135.16
Money Changers' Licences,
600
$50.00
50.00
Fire Brigade,
20,482
18,821.11
1,660.89
Opium Monopoly,
340,800
310,800.00
Sanitary Department,
61,415
59,599.82
4,815.18
Pawnbrokers Liceuces,.
17,000
13,750,00
1,250,00
Charitable Allowances,
5.200
1
3,721,00
1,479.00
Shooting Licences,
40
135.00
Spirit Licences,
47,000
Stamps,
160,000
Steam-Launch Licences,
1,100
51,577.81 142.021.73 2,162.00
95.00 4,577,81
1,062.00
Transport, ....
3,000
1,602,06
1,397,94
31iscellaneous Services,
83,192
17,978.27
Military Expenditure,
294,353
Public Works Recurrent,
160,100
97,847,71 306,744.73 12,391.73 148,643.52
14,655.71
11,486.48
FEES OF COURT OR OFFICE, PAYMENTS POR SPECIFIC PUR-
POSES, AND REIMBURSEMENTS IN AID :-
Bills of Health, .....
2,000
2,307.00
307.00
Births and Deaths, Registration of.....
Cargo Boat Certificates,
100 1,400
126.90
26.90
1,839,00
439,00
Cemetery Burials,
600
822.14
222.14
Cemetery Fees from Public Cemeteries for Chinese,
800
1,387.00
587.00
Chinese Gazette, Sale of
50
51,00
1.00
Companies, Registration of
2,000
1,441,00
$59.00
Convict Labour and other items,
4,000
Deeds, Registration of ....
4,471.83 3,648,00
471.83
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Discharge of Crews and Seninen,
Examination of Masters, &c.,
Fees of Court, ....
13,000
4,000 7,000 7,936.80 836.90 2,100 2,267.50 12,609.88
352.00
167.30
390.12
Fees on Grant of Leases,
300
665.00
205.00
Gaol Expenses,-Recovery from Diplomatic, Naval and Mi-
litary Departments,
500
684.99
184.23
Gunpowder, Storage of......
5,000
3.122.23
1,577.77
Householders, Registration of
2,000
1,409.50
390.50
Imperial Post Office, Coutribution from
5,011
4,279.43
731.57
Lock Hospital; Grant-in-Aid from Admiralty,.
705
790.23
Medical Examination of Emigrants,
16,000
24,356,50
$5.23 8,356,50
Medical Registration Fees,
10
5,00
101
5,00
Medical Treatment of Sick Seamen, and others in Civil Hospital,
15,000
17,149,63
2,149.63
Official Administrator and Trustee,..
2,000
2,793.23
785.25
Official Signatures,
150
2.39.00
139.00
Printed Forms, Sale of
100
207,00
107.00
Private Moorings and Buoys, Rent for
2,400
2,520.00
120,00
Begistry Fees,..............
300
239,00
61.00
Shipping Crews and Seamen,.
7,500
8,63:1.80
1,130.80
Sick Stoppages from Police Force,
800
1.034.82
234.82
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Steam-Launches, Surreyor's Certificate,
1,000
1,675.00
675.00
Subsistence Money of Seamen and others in Victoria Gaol, ...
500
325.25
174.75
Survey of Steam-Ships,
10,000
Trade Marks, Registration of
Victoria College, Fees from Scholars,
400 12,000
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School for Girls,
Do..
550
9,515.75 1,051.50 12,318.00 835.00
484.25
Sunday Cargo-Working Permits, ..........
1,500
7,000.00
631,50 318.00
6,400.00
...
Refund of Police Pay,
2,000
Refund Cost of Police and other Stores,......
1,000
1,905.10 3,238.14 2,2:48.14
215.00
94.90
...
Maintenance of Gap Rock Lighthouse,-Contribution from
Chinese Imperial Government towards the
1,500,00 1,500.00
Construction of Gap Rock Lighthouse, Contribution from
Chiuese Imperial Government,
7,500.00 7,500.00
POST OFFICE:-
Postage.....
160,000
167,596.77 7,596.77
RENT OF GOVERNMENT PROPERTY, LAND AND HOUSES:-
Buildings,
600
Laundries,
1,800
977.26 380.00
377.26
1,420.00
Lands not Leased,
Stone Quarries,
Leased Lands,...
Slaughter House,
Markets,
Cattle Shed,
9,000
7,283.37
1.716.63
17,000
11,280.00
5,720.00
178,000
210,850.10 32,8.30.10
38,000
40,236.00 2,236,00
54,000
64,033.80
33.80
2,100
2,460.00
60.00
Piers....
1,300
3,653.18 2,153,18
INTEREST,
6,802.54 6,802.54
MISCELLANEOUS RECEIPTS:-
Condemned Stores, Sc.,
1,500
Interest for use of Furniture at Government House,
250
Night Soil Contracts,
22,800
Other Miscellaneous Receipts,
Profit on Subsidiary Coins,
2,116.15
23,200.00 10,000 12,020.93 2,020.93 17,000 79,141.23 62.141.29
646.15
100.00
250.00
TOTAL, exclusive of Land Sales and Water Account,...$ 1,781,396 1,940,260.69 195,770.94 36,906.13
LAND SALES,
WATER ACCOUNT-Ord. 16 of 1890,
TOTAL,.......
Treasury, Hongkong, 4th April, 1894.
$
1,809,375 1,903,694.57 63,695.09
59,378,52
16,828.99 16,828.99
50,000 62,971.08 12,971.08 75,000 74,903.19
Public Works, Extraordinary,
96.51
...
1,906,396 2,078,135.26 208,741,92 87,002,66
TOTAL,
.$
1,699,375 1,920,523.56 80,521.08
59,375.82
Public Works Extraonlinary chargeable against the New Loan, $
357,000 338,315,96
18,081.04
N. G. MITCHELL-INNES, Colonial Treasurer.