COLONY OF
HONGKONG.
REVENUE
Amount Total Estimated. Revenue.
RETURN OF REVENUE AND EXPENDITURE DURING THE YEAR ENDED 31ST DECEMBER, 1896.
More than Less than Estimated. Estimated.
EXPENDITURE.
Total
Amount
More than Less than Estimated. Expenditure. Estimated. Estimated,
$
$
G
IGHT DUES,
ICENCES AND INTERNAL REVENUE NOT OTHERWISE SPE-
102,000
117,814,45
$ 15,314.45
0.
CIFLED !—
Arms Ordinance,.............
200
Assessed Taxes,
425,000
370.00 402,212.68
170.00
22,787,32
Auctioneers' Licences,
1,800
1,200.00
600.00
Billiard Tables and Bowling Alleys Licences,
850
1,000.00
150.00
Boarding-house Licences, .
1,500
1,947.94
447.94
Charge on Account of Public Debt, l'ensions,
Governor and Legislature,
Colonial Secretary's Department, Audit Departmeut,
Treasury,
Public Works Department,..
l'ost Office,
$ c.
131,552.04
103,000.00
3 c. 127,158.67 118,054.71 15,054.71
8
*
c.
1,398.97
43,269.00
48,182.19
223.19
29,016,00
28,674.71
341.29
10,000.00
10,298.14 298.14
88,282.00
22,454.00 24,217,15 $5,604.10
1,763.15
2,587,90
185,180.00
188,281.17
3,101.17
Boat Licences,
5,953
6,661.65
708.65
liegistrar General's Department,
14,253.00
Cargo Boat Licences.
10,786
11,983.80
1,195,80
Harbour Master's Department,
18,920.10
323,90
63,813.00
62,336,01
Carriage, Chair, &c.. Licences,....
40,800
42,977.00
2,177.00
Lighthouses,
1,476,99
17,098.00
13,672.15
Chinese Passenger Ships Licences,
350
396.00
45,00
Observatory,
12,502.00
12,690,21
3,125,87 111.79
Chinese Undertakers' Licences, ....
160
180.00
20.00
Stamp Office,
3,572,00
Dog Licences,
2,500
2,509.50
9.60
Botanical and Afforestation Department,
8,008.50
3.50
19,122.00
19,763.81
Emigration Brokers' Licences,..
1,000
1,000.00
Legal Departments,
70,898.00
80,612,50
Fines,
Forfeitures,
Hawkers' Licences,
Junk Licences,
Kerosene Oil Licences,
Marine Store Dealers' Licences,
Marriage Licences,...
Money Changers' Licences,
Opium Monopoly,
30,525
63,518.48
32,993.48
Ecclesiastical,
G61.94 *9,714,50
2,200.00
5,0(X)
3,03.8
1,191.97
Education,
77,020.00
5,382
6,587.00
45.00
Medical Departments,
1,815,00 76,501,76
385.00
A
518.24
98,715,00
109,763.19
25,000
32,622.25
7,622.25
Magistracy,
18,836.00
330 4.500
441.00
111.00
6,340,00
840.00
319
320.00
1.00
Police,
Gaols,..
Fire Brigade,
10,048.19
22,751,27 3,918.27
"ተ
223,978.00
219,777,23
4,195.77
58,194,00
59,626.13
1,432.13
17,818.00
575
535.00
+++
40.00
Sanitary Department,
30,955,48 13,137.48
66,882.00
286,000
286,000,00
Charitable Allowances,
94,818,45 7,936.15
5,200,00
5,767.99 567.99
Pawnbrokers' Licences,...
38,700
Sbooting Licences,
100
Spirit Licences,
00,000
Stamps,
196,000
Steam-Launch Licences,
1,400
39,000.00 85,00 65,649.00 215,517.68 803.50
300.00
Trausport,
2,000,00
16.00
Miscellaneous Services,
3,254.40 1,264.40
138,507.00
5,519,00 19,517.68
Military Expenditure,
239,319.78 | 100,812,78
440,215.00
***
Public Works, Recurrent,
591.50
179,700.00
523,128,45 82,913,45 185,469.13
5,769.13
TEES OF COURT OR OFFICE, PAYMENTS FOR SPECIFIC PUR-
POSES, AND REIMBURSEMENTS IN AID :-
Bills of Health,
2.200
2,349.00
149.00
Births and Deaths, Registration of...
100
141.70
41.70
Cargo Boat Certificates,
1,800
1,986,00
186.00
Cemetery Burials, ......
550
1,067.69
517,69
Cemetery Fees from Public Cemeteries for Chinese,
1,750
1,511.58
238.42
Chinese Gazette, Sale of
46
30.00
16.00
Companies. Registration of
1,200
2,71,50
1,271.50
Convict Labour and other items,
4,000
5.-26.92 1,526.92
Deeds, Registration of
3,500
5,062,00 1,062.00
Discharge of Crews and Seamen,
8,000
10,543.00
2,543.00
Examination of Masters, &c.,
1,600
2,682.50
1,082.50
Fees of Court,
14,040
14,144.77
104.77
Fees on Grant of Leases...ia......... ......
800
1,373,60
573.50
Fees for testing Petroleum,
300
425.00
125.00
Gaol Expenses, Recovery from Diplomatic, Naval and Mi-
litary Departments. Seamen and Debtors,
1,200
1,851.05
154.05
Gunpowder. Storage of......
10,000
11 882.09
1,882.69
Householders, Registration of
1,160
1,366.50
206.50
Imperial Post Office, Contribution from
6,816
6,563.65
252.35
Lock Hospital, Grant-in-Aid from Admiralty,
Medical Examination of Emigrants,
Medical Registration Fees,
960 22,000 10
924.16 21,063.50 35.00
35.54 936.50
25,00
Medical Treatment of Patients in the Civil Hospital,...
15,000
18,601.69
3,601,69
Maintenance of Gap Rock Lighthouse,-Contribution from
Chinese Imperial Government towards the
750
Official Administrator and Trustee,........
1,500
750,00 2,519.25
1,049.25
::
Official Signatures,.
350
Printed Forms, Sale of
200
265.00 227.00
85.00
27.00
Private Moorings and Buoys, Rent for
2,640
2,760.00
120.00
Queen's College, Fecs from Scholars,
13,000
9,948.00
3,052.00
Registry Fees,
270
444,00
194.00
Refund of Police Pay,.
1,500
2,153.64
653.64
Refund Cost of Police and other Stores,.
500
694.82
194.82
Shipping Crews and Seamen,.
9,100
11.791.20
2,691.20
Sick Stoppages from Police Force,
8.00
1.056.09
256.09
Steam-Launches, Surveyor's Certificate,
1,500
1.3-5.00
135.00
Survey of Steam-Ships.
10,000
10,484.07
484,07
School for Girls, Fees from Scholars,
Sunday Cargo-Working Permits,
Trade Marks, Registration of
550 11.000 1,000
475,00
7,575,00 1,436.06
75,00 8.425.00
136.96
POST OFFICE:-
Postage.....
225,000
245,280.33 20,280,33
K
Rent of GoveRNMENT PROPERTY, LAND AND HOUSES:-
Buildings.
Cattle Shed,..
Laundries.
Leased Lands,.
Lands not Lonsed.
760 2,600 480 208,000 7,000
434.00
326.00 2,600.00
ϱ0.00
60.00
217,242.39
9,282.89
11,532.14
4,532.14
Markets,
68.000
69,458.51
1.458.51
Piers.....
4,000
4,259,67
2069,57
Stone Quarries,
8,000
15,850.00
7,850,00
Slaughter House,
40,440
42,760.00 2,810,00
Sheep and Pig Depôts,
6,900
10,452.86 3,552,86
INTEREST,
5,000
---
5,000,00
MISCELLANEOUS RECEIPTS!—
Condemned Stores, &c.,
1,000
Interest for use of Furniture at Government House,
144
Night Soil Contracts, .
28,440
Other Miscellaneous Receipts.
Profit on Subsidiary Coins,
1,431.39 144.40 26,240,00 19,000 18,899.00 110,000 110,196.20
431.39 .40
200.00 605.91
196.20
TOTAL, exclusive of Land Sales and Water Account,...$ 2,133,360 2,250,179,57 150,047,08 | 42,283,51
LAND SALES. .........
WATER ACCOUNT—Ord. 16 of 1800,
70,000 270,858.99 200,858,91
Public Works, Extraordinary,...............................
85,000 88,840,39 3,840.38
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TOTAL,....
$ 2,288,366 2,609,879.94 363,746.45 42,233.51
TOTAL...
Treasury, Hongkong, 20th March, 1897.
$ 2,158,561.04 | 2,405,399.39 | 264,606,97
123,300.00 69,510.98
17,769,22
58,780.02
....$ | 2,281,861,64 2,474,910.37 | 264,006.07
71,558.24
Public Works Extraordinary chargeable against the New Loan, $
197,200
230,619.32 39,419.32
A. M. THOMSON,
Acting Colonial Treasurer,
167
1007