COLONY OF HONGKONG.
RETURN OF REVENUE AND EXPENDITURE DURING THE YEAR ENDED 31ST DECEMBER, 1895.
REVENUE.
Amount Total Estimated. Revenuc.
More than Less than Estimated. Estimated.
Amount
EXPENDITURE.
Total More than Loss than Estimated. Expenditure. Estimated. Estimated.
$
$
C.
LIGHT DUES, ....
LICENCES AND INTERNAL REVENUE NOT OTHERWISE SPE-
90,000
107,315,01
$ 4. 11,315.91
*.
QIFIED :-
Arms Ordinance...
200
Assossed Taxes,
370,000
230.00 404,105.75
30.00
34,105,75
Auctioneers' Licences,
1,800
Billiard Tables and Bowling Alleys Licences,
1,100
2,100.00 1,000.00
Boarding-bouse Licences,
175
2,193.75
Boat Licences,
5,850
6,123.25
300.00
---
2,018.75 273.25
100.00
Charge on Account of Public Debt, Pensions,
Governor and Legislature.
Colonial Secretary's Department, Audit Department.......
Treasury,
Public Works Department,.
Post Office,
$ 114,710 94,000
$
$ c. 110,374.21 112,776,97 18,776.97 41,339 44,053.36 2,714.36
4.
$ 4,335.79
0.
33,276 33,385.39 109.39
10,000
8,678.89
1,321,11
22,700
26,205.04 3,505.04
88,696
85,447.66
3,248,34
Registrar General's Department,
179,770 22,333
194,240.27 14,464,27
17,099.41
5,233.59
Cargo Boat Licences,
10,300
11.425.00
1,125.00
Harbour Master's Department,
62,321 68,256.21 6,935.24
Carriage, Chair, &c., Licences,.
40,000
42,308.00
2,303,00
Lighthouses,
15,388
15,503.34
176.34
Chinese Passenger Ships Licences,
400
325.00
75,00
Observatory,
13,237
13,433,55
196.55
Chinese Undertakers' Licences,
160
160.00
Stamp Office,
4,328
4,027.40
-
Dog Licences,
2,500
Forfeitures,
Emigration Brokers' Licences,.. Fines,
2,370,50
129.50
Botanical and Afforestation Department,
18,770
17,346,83
300.60 1,423.17
1,2010
1,000.00
200.00
Legal Departments,
68,882
78,754.83
9,872,83
22,150
30,229,03
14,079.03
Ecclesiastical,
2,200
1,830.00
1,150
4,149.00
2,999.06
Education,
64,170
60,140,24
370.00 4,029.76
Hawkers' Licences,
5,200
5,597.00
397,00
Medical Departments,
65,994
74,291.62 8,297.62
TH
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
Police,
227,647
217,451.54
10,095,46
Marriage Licences,
300
331.00
51.00
Gaols,...
54,951
51,125.66
3,825.34
Money Changers' Licences,
540
585.00
5.00
Fire Brigade,
20,098 17,169,30
2,928.70
Opium Monopoly,
295,133
295,133,34
.34
Sanitary Department,
74,676
84,032.10
9,406.10
Pawnbrokers' Licences,.
39,000
39,000.00
Charitable Allowances,
5,200
3,955,16
44
1,244.84
Shooting Licences,
100
110.00
10.00
Transport,
2,000
Spirit Licences,
67,500
65,143.50
Stamps.
185,000
Steam-Launch Licences,
2,500
206.010.48 1,228,50
21,040.48
2,356.50
1,271.50
Miscellaneous Services,
150,707
Military Expenditure,
396,000
966,156,71
Public Works Recurrent,
164,500
4,743.65 2,743.65 232,243.49
81,535.49
170,284.98 5,784.98
זיז
111
20,843.29
FEES OF COURT OR OFFICE, PAYMENTS FOR SPECIFIC PUR-
POSES, AND REIMBURSEMENTS IN AID:
Bills of Health,
2,200
1,932.00
Births aud Deaths, Registration of..
110
102.15
268.00 7,85
Cargo Boat Certificates,
1,600
Cemetery Burials,
600)
1,951.00 968.21
351.00
368.21
Cemetery Fees from Public Cemeteries for Chinese,
2,200
1,475.60
724.40
Chinese Gazette, Sale of
50
45.00
5.00
Companies, Registration of
1,200
2,524,25 1,324.25
Convict Labour and other items,
*
Deeds, Registration of
3,000
Discharge of Crews and Seamen,
7,500
4,726.75 1,726,75 8.622.00 1,122,00
ITI
+++
Examination of Masters, &c.,
2,090
2.020.00
70.00
Fees of Court,
16,000
16,081.50
Fees on Grant of Leases,
400
870.00
64.30 470.00
Gaol Expenses,-Recovery from Diplomatic, Naval and Mi-
litary Departments, Seamen and Debtors....
Gunpowder, Storage of...... ......
3,800
Householders, Registration of
1,200
28,114.52 1,209.25
19,314,52 0.25
Imperial Post Office, Contribution from
Lock Hospital, Grant-in-Aid from Admiralty,
Medical Examination of Emigrants,
21,000
21,612,25
612,25
Medical Registration Fees,
10
T
10.00
Medical Treatment of Patients in the Civil Hospital,
Official Administrator and Trustee,...
1,000
Official Signatures,......
300
Printed Forms, Sale of
100
5,552,88 271,00 282,50
1,652.88
29.00
182.50
Private Moorings and Buoys, Rent for
2,520
2,640,00
120.00
Queen's College, Fees from Scholars,
Registry Fees,
300
219.00
61,00
Refund of Police Pay,
Refund Cost of Police and other Stores,.-.+++
Shipping Crews and Seamen,
8,500
9,710.40 1,216.40
Sick Stoppages from Police Force,
Steam-Launches, Surveyor's Certificate,
1,500
1,575.00
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, Fees from Scholars,
Sunday Cargo-Working Permits, .......
7,000
Trade Marks, Registration of
900
11,600.00 4,600.00
562.64
337.36
POST OFFICE:-
Fostage,......
185,000 241,449,71 59,449.71
RENT OF GOVERNMENT PROPERTY, LAND AND HOUSES:-
Buildings,
360
2,225.30 1,865.30
Cattle Shed,..
Laundrics,
2,580 330
2,220.00
360.00
Leased Lands,.
200,000
Lands not Leased,
6,088
350.00 230,803.46 8,419.01
20.00
30,908.16
2,881.01
Markels,
62,000
63,574.35
1,074.35
Piers....
3,500
4,367.09
Stone Quarries,
15,000
8,100.00
Slaughter House,
40,000
40,440.00
$67.00
440.00
6,900,00
Sheep and Pig Depôts,
12,000
4,888.80
INTEREST,
30,000
5,936.78
7,116.20 24,063.22
MISCELLANEOUS RECEIPTS:-
Condemned Stores, &c.,.
1,000
2,032.35
1,032,35
י ז י
Interest for use of Furniture at Government House,
150
144.40
5,60
Night Soil Contracts, -
Other Miscellaneous Receipts,.
Profit on Subsidiary Coins,
1,410.00 82,979.88 70,979.88
80,000 152,600.88 72,000.38
TOTAL, cxclusive of Land Sales and Water Account,...$ 1,942,526 2,275,577.69377,896.61 44,844.92
LAND SALES,
WATER ACCOUNT-Ord. 16 of 1890,
23,280
24,690.00
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 . 837,842.05 813,172.00
76,000 80,179.41 4,179.41
$ 2,079,528 *2,486,228.89 451,547.81 44,844.92
TOTAL..
$
2,067,701 2,972,375.01 976,690.88 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,
318,500 186,970.87
131,529.13
Treasury, Hongkong, 18th March, 1896.
A. M. THOMSON, Acting Colonial Treasurer.
1446