COLONY OF HONGKONG.
RETURN OF REVENUE AND EXPENDITURE DURING THE YEAR ENDED 31st DECEMBER, 1897.
REVENCE.
Amount Estimated
Total Revenne.
More than Less than Estimated. Estimated,
EXPENDITURE.
Amount Total More than Less than Estimated. Expenditure. Estimated. Estimated.
8
$
r.
$
$ C.
$ t'.
LIGHT DUES.
LICENCES AND INTERNAL REVENUE NOT OTHERWISE SPE-
113,0
114,176.474
CIFIED
Arms Ordinance..
$20
$30000
Auctioneers' Licences,
Emigration Brokers' LirenceS,,
Assessed TaxĘS,
Billiard Tables nual Bowling Alleys Licences,
Boarding-house Licences,
Boat Licences................
Cargo That Licences,.
Carlinge, Clair, &c. Licences,.
Chinese Passenger Ships Licences,
Chinese Undertakers' Licences,
Dog Licences, .............
Fines,
Forfeitures,
420,000
429,746,40
110,00 0,186,89
LSC0
18X1.00
1,000
POLLO0
180.00
2,200
2014.26
1,993.74
6.065
6,971.85
904.35
Charge on Accoum of Public Bobt, l'ensions,
Governor and Legislature.
Colonial Secretary's Department,
Audit Departament............ Treasury
Public Works Department,.
Post Office,
legistrar General's Departinent,
148,000.00
$ Ĉ 137,490,70
$ ('. 14,490.70
$ C.
$290,000.00
140.824.22 11.824.22
42,903,00
14.243.94 1,494
30.616000|
25.60146
4,924.54
20,000.00 |
12,103.80
2.103.80
22,742.00
22,240 23
492.17
100.8245.00
X2,556.92
1,269008
207,361.1.0
207,080.29
280.71
12,957.000!
12.195,82
761.68
11,850
11,418.00
-KOS.CO
Harbour Master's Department,
62,313,000
61.485.00
$28,00
43,323.30
$50
J
3.80.00 200.00
2.523.50 20,00 40,00
Lighthouses.........................
16,879,00|
16,394,03
475.07
Observatory,
12,876 00
14,583.99
1,687.99
Stamp Office.
3,572.00
3.564.62
7,38
2.500
2,433.00
67.00
Botanical and Afforestation Department,
$8,698.410
18,862.41
164.41
1000
1,000.00
Legal Departments,
73,168.00
70,882.20
3,214.20
51,892
31.834.80
20,057.20
Eclesiastical,
2.200.00
1,825.000
375XX)
3,065
1.357.07 1,292.07
Education,
76,043.00
$2,984.83
3.058.17
Hawkurs' Licences,
5,661
6,831,50
978.50
Melical Departments,
98,257.00
119,078,80 || 16,721,80
Junk Licences,
$1,500
29,063.80
2.486.20
Magistracy,
19,852.483
21.082.51
1,480.51
Kerosene Oil Licences.
450
Marine Store Dealers' Licences,
5,50x
505,00 5.280.00
Marriage Licences..
Money Changers" Licences,
296 5-19
482.00
550.00
$5.00
185.00 10.00
Polier,
239,760.081
241,568.82
2,008.82
220.00
Gaols.
GOJUSK,00
59.372.25
Sanitary Department,
£6,622.00
96.662.40
10.40
Charitable Allowances,
5,260,00
4.281.000
713.75
1,028.01
Opium Monopoly,
Pawnbrokers' Licences,..
286,000) 39.000
284,000,00
Transport,
3.000,00
7.712.88 4,712,96
39,000.00
Miscellaneous Services,
133.007.00
307,215,81 | 170,658,81
Shooting Licences,
1
120,00
20,00
Military Expenditure,
470,294,00
476.800.601
6,477.60
Spirit Licences,
65,000
67.136.50
2.136.50
Public Works, Recurrent.....
203,000,00
206,451.67
3,451.67
Stamps,
215,000
252,216.88
87,216.8S
Stenni-Launch Licences,
200
982.50
132.50
FEES OF COURT OR OFFICE, PAYMENTS FOR SPECIFIC PUR-
POSES, AND REIMBURSEMENTS IN AID-
Bills of Health,
2.200
2,016 00
154.00
Births and Deaths, Registration of................
111
247,52
Cargo Boat Certificates,
1.900
1938.00
Cemetery Burials,
5.00
1,039.24
137.58 23.00 500.24
Cemetery Fees from Public Cetueteries for Chinese,
1,700
1,120,50
Chinese Gazette, Sale of
#0
25,410
$78.50 1:1.00
Companies, Registration of
1.204
2,863,25
1,608.25
Convict Labour and other items.
5,000
4,811.01
188.50
Deeds, Registration of
4,500
4,088.00
488.00
Discharge of Crews and Seamen,
9.500
14.024.00
$24.00
Examination of Masters, &e,
1.700
3.050.00
1.350.00
Fices of Court,
14,044
13,981.29
M.71
---
Fees on Grant of Leases. ......
1,000
Fees for testing Petroleum.
300
705 00 335.00
205.00
55.00
Gaol Expenses-Recovery from Diplomatic, Naval and Mi-
litary Departments, Seamen nul Debtors,...
1.200
Gunpowder, Storage of.......
40.000
1.815.15 13.853.44
16.15 4.353.44
Householders, Registration of
1.355
1.278.75
117
Imperial Post Oflice. Luntribution from
6,804
5,375,97
$4.25 1,128.03
Lock Hospital, Grant-in-Aki from Admiralty,
Merical Examination of Emigrants,
Medical Registration Fees,
923 99,4511 10
1,018.76
95.76
19,14,25
2,185.75
Medical Treatment of Patients in the Civil Hospital,
18,0.10
30.00 10,021.58
20,00 1,021,53
Maintenance of Gap Block Lighthou-e-Contribution fron
Chinese Imperial Government towards the
730
750,000
Official Administrator and Trustoc,.....
1,500
3.196.71
Official Signatures,
300
14,160,11
1.904,70 13,860.11
::
Printed Forns, Sale of
200
181.75
18.25
Private Moorings and Baoya, Rent for
2,700
2.880,00
Queen's College, Fees from Scholars,
11,009
13,400,00
180,00 2,460,00
Registry Fees,
300
Refund of Police Pay,
Refund Cost of Police und other Stores,.
1,800 100
706,00 1,817.20
406.00
17.29
37.01
87,01
Shipping Crews and Feamen..
10,500
10,947.20
447.24
Sick Stoppages from Police Force..
Steam-Launches, Surveyor's Certifiente,
700 1,500
1.0238,64
323.51
1.600.00
100.00
Survey of Steam-Ships,....
School for Girls. Fees from Scholars,
Sunday Cargo-Working Pernits,
Trade Marks, Registration oË
10,200 00 9.0.0 1,000
11.829.77
1.629.77
619.00 118301,00 2.036.04
119,00
2,850,00
1,956,04
Overtime Fees Engagement and discharge of 'rews on
Board Ship,
POST OFFICE :—
Postage,...
2-10,000
REST OF GOVERNMENT PROPERTY, LAND AND HOUSES:—
Buiklings,
Laundries,
400 580
Leased Lands......................
215,000
515,00
268,616,40
792.00 693,8! 211,708,70
515.00
28,616,49
392.00 158.4 26,798.70
Lands not Leasel.
11.500
Markets,....
69668
Piers,.......
6,000
Stone Quarries,
13,250
10.100.47 70.51915 4,082.19 155KURS
1,809,6)
*50,15
1.917.81
830.00
Slaughter House.
42.770
41,412,400
1,338.00
Sheep and Pig Depôts,
INTEREST,
10,000
MISCELLANEOUS RECEIPTS:+4
Condemned Stores, &e...
1,000
Interest for use of Furniture at Governight House,
15
11.147.54 4,574.81
2.671.04 156.43
147.54
5,123.16
1,671,04
11.3
Night Soil Contracts...
28.440
27.810,00
Other Miscellaneous Receipts.
20,000
12.924.17
G00.00) 7,073.38
Profit on Suliliary Coins,
115,000
113,063.91
15.01
TOTAL, exclusive of Land Sales and Water Account,......$ į 2248,823 | 2,352,366.32 | 151,510.37| 48,297.05
LAND SALES,
WATER ACCOUNT—Oid. 14 of 1890,
TOTAL,
100,000 224,500,39 | 124,500,59
Public Works, Extraordinary,...
$ | 2,287,483,00, 2513,093,83|210,426.29
113,800,00 197,714,88|| 14,116.38 |
14.215.06
90,000 110,047,79 20,017.79
2,138,823 | 2,680,914.70 |296,388,75 48,295.05
TOTALarangan k
...$ | 2,401,083,481 || 2,641,409,71| |251,542.67 14.215.06
Public Works Extraordinary chargeable against the New Loan, $ 368/0
321.705,80
46.294.11
Treasury, Hongkong, 8th March, 1893.
T. SERCOMBE SMITH, Treasurer.