No. 18
93.
HONGKONG.
STATEMENT SHOWING THE TOTAL REVENUE AND EXPENDITURE IN THE YEAR 1892.
Laid before the Legislative Council by Command of His Excellency the Governor, on the 25th May, 1893.
COLONY OF HONGKONG.
REVENUE.
Amount Total Estimated. Revenue.
RETURN OF REVENUE AND EXPENDITURE DURING THE YEAR ENDED 31st DECEMBER, 1892.
More than Less than Estimated.. Estimated.
EXPENDITURE.
Amount Total More than Less than Estimated. Expenditure. Estimated Estimated.
$
*
r.
LIGHT DUES,
$5,000
92,264,70
$ é 7,261.70
$
c.
Arms Ordinance,.....
LICENCES AND INTERNAL REVENUE NOT OTHERWISE SPE-
CIFIED:-
Assessed Taxes,
Auctioneers' Licences,
Billiard Tables and Bowling Alleys Licences,
Boarding-house Licences,
Boat Licences....
Cargo Boat Licences,
Carriage, Chair, &c.. Licencus,.
Chinese Passenger Ships Licences,
Chinese Undertakers' Licences,
Emigration Brokers Licences,..
Emigration Tenement Licences,
Fines.
Forfeitures.
200
+40,000
180.00 458,158.27
20.00
18,153.27
1,800
1.800.00
1,300
1.200.00
100.00
Charge on Account of Public Debt, Pensions.
Governor and Legislature....
Colouial Secretary's Department,
Andit Department,.
Treasury,
Public Works Department,.
67.086.51 1,886.54 40,879 43,808.12 2,924.12
$ 90,860
$ (.
105.326.10
$ c. $ c. 8,466.10
65,200
85,616
10,000
27,376
37,440.94 9,433.38 29,976,60 2.500.09
1,824.04
566.62
72,760 65,305.12
7,364.88
160
175.00
5,000
7.877.25
25.00 2,877.25
7,000
7.189.00
189.00
Registrar General's Department,
Water and Drainage Department, Post Office,
27,366
21,098.62
5,382.48
118,976
164,248.30
35,272.30
25,490
26.090.76
600.70
45,000
39,324.10
5,675,90
Harbour Master's Department,
58,811
61,844.46 3,083.46
300
296.00
15,00
Lighthouses,
14,648
10,341.22
+,300.78
130
120.00
10.00
Observatory,
12,852
14,495.14 1,043.44
1,280
1,000.00
200.00
Stamp Office.
4.318
4,563,32 215.32
10
10.00
Pr
Botanical and Afforestation Department,
21,842
22.705.52
8l3.52
16,000
32,941.21 16,841.21
Legal Departments,
71,308
$0.782.49
9,424.49
1,000
Hawkers' Licences,
4,500
8,761.71 2,761.71 2,072.00
Ecclesiastical Department,
5,490
2,985.00
2,505,00
2,$28.00
Education,
84,120
87,258.47
3,138.47
Junk Licences....
20,000
26,036.20
6.036.20
Medical Departments,
70,648
89,338.62 | 13,690.62
Marine Store Dealers' Licences.
900
900.00
Marriage Licences,...
400
270,00
130.00
Money Changers' Licences,
700
$70.00
130.00
Opium Monopoly,
519,000
407,900,00
111,100.00
Magistracy,
Police,
Gaols.
Fire Brigade,
25,124
27.045.75
1.921.75
227,284
241,209.28
16.925.28
57,682
59,771.10
2,089.10
20,482
19,348.64
1,133.36
Pawnbrokers' Licences,
14.000
Shooting Licences,
20
Spirit Licences,
44,000
Stamps...
180,000
Steam-Launch Licences,
400
15,750.00 125.00 50,865.11 151.388,37 2,180.50
1,750.00 105,00 6,866,11
'1,730.50
Sanitary Department,
59,792
64,996.01 5,204.01
Charitable Allowances,
5,000
8,474.10 3.474.10
Transport,
4.500
6,824.55 1,324.55
28,611.63
Miscellaneous Services,.
124,802
188,161.30
8,359.30
Military Expenditure,
264,632
FEES OF COURT OR OFFICE, PAYMENTS FOR SPECIFIC PUR-
Public Works Recurrent,
269.005.27 1,378.27 115,060 115,089,12 629.12
POSES, AND REIMBURSEMENTS IN AID :-
Bills of Health,
2.000
Births and Deaths, Registration of... MAARTEN
Cargo Boat Certificates,
Cemetery Burials,
100 1,200 600
2,220.00 109.43
220.00
9.48
1,653.30
453.30
661.91
61.91
Cemetery Fees from Public Cemeteries for Chinese,
924.50
924,50
Chinese Gazette, Sale of
50
58.00
3.00
Companies, Registration of
2,000
2,062,00
62.00
Convict Labour and other items,
Deeds, Registration of
4,000 4,000 4,335,00
4,189.02
189.02
336,00
Discharge of Crews and Seamen,
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7,177.20
7,177,20
Examination of Masters, &c.,
Fecs of Court,
Fecs on Grant of Leases.
1,500
2,637.50 1,137.50
13,000
12,372.19
627.81
200
570.00
370.00
Gaol Expenses recovered,.
1,000
549.36
450.64
Gunpowder, Storage of......
5,000
5,158.30
158.30
Householders, Registration of
2,000
1,351,25
---
648.75
Imperial Post Office, Contribution from
3,408
Lock Hospital, Grant-in-Aid from Admiralty,
500
Medical Examination of Emigrants,
15,000
6,304,40 706.43 16,940.00
2,696.40
205.13
1,940.00
Medical Registration Fees,
Medical Treatment of Sick Seamen,
10 12,000
60.00 12,848.78
40.00
848.78
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Official Administrator, Assignee, &c...
3,000
1,608.80
1,301,20
Official Signatures.
150
203.00
53.00
Printed Forms, Sale of.
1,200
81.00
1,119.00
Private Moorings and Buoys, Rent for
2,430.00
2,430,00
Registry Fees, (Merchant Shipping Act),
300
210.00
Shipping Seamen,
9,000
7,735.80
90.00 1,264.20
Sick Stoppages from Police Force,
800
83.75
83.15
Steam-Launches, Surveyor's Certificate,
1,300
1,340,00
40.00
Subsistence of Seamen, &c., in Gaol, ..............
300
312.75
12.76
Survey of Steam-Ships,....
Trade Marks, Registration of
Victoria College, Fees from Scholars,
School for Girls,
Do..
10,000 400 12,000 300
8,645,43 811,07 12,342.00
1,354.57
411.07
342.00
430.50
190.50
Sunday Cargo-Working Permits,
5,000.00
5,000.00
Refund of Police Pay, &c., vi+n
Refund Cost of Police Stores,
1,800 1,000
2,172.63 1,659.47
372,63
669.47
I'OST OFFICE:-
Postage,
140,000
157,699.08 17,699.03
RENT OF GOVERNMENT PROPERTY, LAND AND HOUSES:-
Buildings,
600
Laundries.
Lands not Leased,
9,000
Stone Quarrics,
20,000
660.00 408.70 8,864.60 16,700,00
80.00 403.70
185.40 3,300,00
Leased Lands,
Slaughter House,
Markets,
170,000
40,000
189,867,44 19,867.44
37,464.00
2,596.00
52,000
54,088.57 2,088.57
Cattle Shed,
2,700
2,400.00
300,00
Piers...
INTEREST,
MISCELLANEOUS RECEIPTS:—
1,100
2,207.09 359.57
1,107.09
359.57
Condemned Stores, &c.,
1,500
3,596.13
2,096.13
Interest for use of Furniture at Government House,
150
Night Soil Contract,
20,000
376.57 20,475,00
226.67 476.00
Other Miscellaneous Receipts,
10,000
35,133.56 25,138.60
Profit on Subsidiary Coins,
80,000 68,940,65
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11,059.35
TOTAL, cxclusive of Land Sales and Water Account,...$ 2,044,178 2,032.244.10 160,683.55 172,617,45
LAND SALES,
100,000 121,828.84 21,825.84 82,860.43 82,860.43
TOTALT
$2,144,178 2,236,933,37 266,372.82 172,617,45
WATER ACCOUNT—Ord. 16 of 1890,
Treasury, Hongkong, 10th May, 1893.
1,773,918 1,882,474.49 129,815.61
21,269.12
Public Works, Extraordinary,
Do.
Do.,
defrayed from Water Account,
680,078377,502.34
t 82,860.43 j
+++
219,715.23
TOTAL..................................
2,453,996 2,342,837.26 | 129,815.01| 240,974,35
N. G. MITCHELL-INNES, Treasurer.
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