COLONY OF HONGKONG.
RETURN OF REVENUE AND EXPENDITURE DURING THE YEAR ENDED 31ST DECEMBER, 1895,
REVENUE.
Amount Total Estimated. Revenue.
$
LIGHT DUES,
LICENCE AND INTERNAL REVENUE NOT OTHERWISE SPE-
96,000
$ 107,815.91
0.
<.
$
11.815.91
CIFIED:-
Arms Ordinance...
200
Emigration Brokers' Licences,...
Assessed Taxes,
Auctioneers' Licences,
Billiard Tables and Bowling Alleys Licencea,
Boarding-house Licences,
Boat Licences...
Cargo Boat Licences..
Carriage, Chair, &c., Licences...
Chinese Passenger Ships Licences,
Chinese Undertakers' Licences,
Dog Licences,
Fines,.....
370,000
230,00 404,105.75
30.00 34,105.75
1.800
2.100,00
300.00
1,100
1,000,00
175
2.198.75
2,019.75
Z
More than Less than Estimated. Estimated.
100,00
Charge on Account of Public Debt, Pensions,INDOORI
Governor and Legislature. Colonial Secretary's Department, Audit Department,.............................. Treasury,****
Public Works Department,.........
Post Office,...
Amount
EXPENDITURE,
Total More Dan Less than Estimated. Expenditure. Estimated. Estimatel,
$ 114,710
3 110,374.21
$ 2.
e.
* 4,335,79
6.
94,000
112,770,07
18.776.97
41,339
$4,053.36 2.714.36
33,276
35,385.319 109.30
10,000
8,678,89
1,321.11
22,700
26,205.04 3,505.04
88,696
85,447.66
3,248.34
179,776
6,850
6,123.25
273.25
Registrar General's Department,
22,333
194.240.27 14.464.27
17,009.41
6,233.59
10,300
11.425.00
1,125.00
Harbour Master's Department,
52,321 65,256,24 5,986.24
40,000
42,308.00
2,808.00
Lighthouses,
15,388 15,568,84
175,34
400
160
825.00 160.00
75.00
Observatory,--------------AIR-PRAKTIK
13,207
13,433,55
196.55
Stamp Office,
4,328
4,027,40
300.60
2,500
2,370,650
129.50
Botanical and Afforestation Department,.
18,770
17,346.83
1,423.17
1,200
1,000.00
200,00
Legal Departments,
68,882
78,754.83 9,872.83
22,150
36,229.03
14,079.03
+++
Ecclesiastical,
2,200
1,830.00
370,00
Forfeitures,
1,150
4,149.00
2,999.06
Education,
64,170
60,140.24
4,029,76
Hawkers' Licences,
5,200
5,397.00
897.00
Medical Departments,
Junk Licences.
25,0011
31.534.50
6,594 50
***
Magistracy,
65,99+ 74,291.62 25,232
8,297.62
21,413,12
9,818.88
Marine Store Dealers' Licences,
900
2,746.00
Marriage Licences...
300
331.00
1,845.00
31.00
Police,
227,547
217,451.50
10,095.46
Gaols....
54,951
51,125.66
3,825.31
Money Changers' Licences,
540
535.00
5.00
Fire Brigade,
20,098
17,169.30
2,928,70
Opium Monopoly,
295,133
295,133.34
.34
Sanitary Department,
74,670
84,082.10 9,406.10
Pawnbrokers' Licences,.
Shouting Licences,
59,000 100
39,000.00
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Charitable Allowances,
5,200
3,955.16
1,244.84
Spirit Licences,
67.500
110.00 65.148.50
10.00
Transport,
2,000
4.743,65 2,748.65
2,356,50
Stamps,
185,000
Steam-Launch Licences,
2,500
206.040.48 1,228.50
21.040.48
Military Expenditure,
Miscellaneous Services,.................................÷PROPE
150,707
396,000
232,243,49 81,636.49 368,166.71|
29,843.29
1,271.50
Public Works Recurrent, ...............................................................
164,500
170,284.98 5,784.98
D
FEES OF COURT OR OFFICE, PAYMENTS FOR SPECIFIC PUR-
POSES, AND REIMBURSEMENTS IN AID :—
Bills of Health,
Births and Deaths, Registration of.......
Cargo Boat Certificates,
2.200 110 1.600
Cemetery Burials,
600
Cemetery Fees from Public Cemeteries for Chinese,
2,200
Chinese Gazette, Sale of
50
Companies. Registration of
1,200
1,930.00 102.15 1,951.00 968.21 1,475.60 45.00 2,524.25
268.00 7.85
351.00 368.21
+1
724.40 6.00
1,324.25
Convict Labour and other items,
Deeds, Registration of
3,000
4,726.75
1,726.75
Discharge of Crews and Seamen,
7,500
8,622.00 1,122.(M)
Examination of Masters, &c.,
2.090
2.020.00
70.00
Fees of Court,
16,000
16,064.50
64.50
Fees on Grant of Leases, .............
400
870.00
470.00
Gaol Expenses,-Recovery from Diplomatic, Naval and Mi-
litary Departments. Seamen and Debtors,..
Gunpowder, Stomge of......
3,800
Householders, Registration of
1,200
33,114.52 1.200.25
19,314.52 9.25
Imperial Post Office, Contribution from
Lock Hospital, Grant-in-Aid from Admiralty,..
Medical Examination of Emigrants,
21,000
21,612.25
$12,25
Medical Registration Fees,
10
10.00
Medical Treatment of Patients in the Civil Hospital,.
Official Administrator and Trustee,.
1,000
Ofeial Signatures,...
DOR
Printed Forms, Sale of
100
Private Moorings and Buoys, Rent for
2,520
5,552.88 271.00 282.50 2,640.00
4,552.88
29.00
182.50 120.00
F
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 Seamen...
8,500
9,716.40 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
769.79
School for Girls. Fees from Scholars,
Bunday Cargo-Working Permits,....
7,000
Trade Marks, Registration of
900
11,600.00 662.64
4,60(100
---
937.36
POST OFFICE :-
185,000 244,$49,71 69,149.71
BEST OF GOVERNMENT PROPERTY. LAND AND HOUSES:—
Buildings,
360
2.225.80 1.865.30
Cattle Shed,..
2,580
2,220.00
300.00
Laundries.
330
350.00
Leased Lands,
200,000
Lands not Leased,
Markets,....
6,088 62.000
230,803.46 8,419,0] 63.574.35
20,00 30,803 16
2.331.01
1,574.35
Piers......
3,500
4,867.09
807,09
Stone Quarries, .................................**
15,000
8,100.00
Slaughter loase,
40,000
40.440.00
440.00
Sheep and Pig Depôts,
12,000
4.883.80
INTEREST,
30,000
5,936.78
6,900,00
7.116.20 24,003.22
MISCELLANEOUS RECEIPTS:-
Comklemned Stores, &c.,
1,000
2,032.35
1.032.35
Interest for use of Furniture at Government House.
150
Night Soil Contracts,.
23.280
Other Miscellaneous Receipts,
12,000
Profit on Subsidiary Coins,
80,000
144 40 24.690.00 1.110.00 $2,079.88 70.079.88 152,600.88 72,600,88
5.50
LAND SALES,
TOTAL, exclusive of Land Salca and Water Account,...$ 1,942,526 2.275,577.69377,896.01
WATER ACCOUNT-Ord. 16 of 1890,-----
44,844.92
$ 2,043,031 2,131,590.96 163,518,83 72,019.87
61,000 130,471.79 69,471.79 76,000 80,179,41 4,179.43
Public Works, Extraordinary,
24,670 841,626.65 816,956,65
TOTALÁLATTE
$2,079,326 *2,486,228.89 451,547.81 44,844.02
TOTAL,...
$2,067,701 2,976,157.61 980,475.48
72,018,67
• Not including appropriations in aid $49,047.55 which have been deducted from the Expenditure.
Public Works Extraordinary chargeable against the New Loan, $
318,500 183,166.27
135,313.73
Treasury, Hongkong, 30th June, 1896.
A. M. THOMSON,
Acting Colonial Treasurer.
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