COLONY OF HONGKONG.
RETURN OF REVENUE AND EXPENDITURE DURING THE YEAR ENDED 31st DECEMBER, 1898.
REVENUE.
LIGHT DUES.
LICENCES AND INTERNAL REVENUG NOT OTHERWISE SPE-
Amount Total More than Less than Estimated. Revenue. Estimated. Estimated.
$
43,000
*
('.
$
$ C. 51,645,13 | 6,645.15
بع
EXPENDITURE.
Amount Total More than Less than Estimated Expenditure. Estinated. Estimated.
$ 2.
CIFIED:
Arms Ordinance.........................
350
420.00
70.00
Assessed TnxeS,
400,000
106,019.37
4,619.37
Auctioneers' Licences.
!100
1,500.00
600.00
Billiard Tables and Bowling Alleys Licences,
1,000
1.100.00
100.00
Boarding-house Licences...
2,000
8,107.92 1,197.02
Charge on Account of Public Debt, l'ensions,
Governor and Legislature.
Colonial Secretary's Department, Audit Department.......
Treasury,..........
Public Works Department,.
Post Office,
176,123,00
163,805.08
3 ¿ 12,317.07
115,000.00 164,210,26 19,210.26
42,903.00 |
51.809.58
8,906.58
27,207.00:
34.802.11
7,595,11
10,000.00
7.386.61
22,667.00
22,409 02
2.613.39 237.98
92,782.00
89,574.10 |
8.207.00
211,785,00
241,561,52| 29,776.52
Boat Licences,..........................................
6,570
9,847.30 3,277,30
Registrar General's Department,
18.341.00
14.994.92!
1,68.02
Cargo Boat Licences.
11,786
11,209.50
570.50
Harbour Master's Departinent,
62,$13.00
65.833.25
3,022.25
Carriage, Chair, &c.. Licences,»
¥2,000
44,025.80 2,025,80
Lighthouses,
15,770.00
14.934.94
1833.00
Chinese l'assenger Ships Licences,
350
$10.00
10.00
Observatory,
12,876 00
12,728.85
147.15
Chinese Undertakers' Licences,
200
170.00
30.00
Stamp Office.
8.617,00
3,015.80.
1.20
Dog Licences,
2,500
2,728.50
228.50
Botanical and Afforestation Department,
18,500.00
17,842.44!
666.56
Eniigmation Brokers' Licences.......
1,000
800.00
200,00
Legal Departments,
73,930,00
76,092.45
2,162.45 |
Fines...
Forfeitures.
41,000
60.114.43
19,414.43
Ecclesiastical,
2,200.00
1,815.00
385.00
4,310
11,485.92: 7.177.92
Education,
76,403.00 |
72,420.12
3,982.88
Hawkers' Licences,
4,113
7,906,50
1,793.50
Medical Departments,
108,183.00
113,502,48
7,800.48
Junk Licences,
28,000
20,354.00
1,33-1.XI
Magistracy,
19,562.00
21,405.00
1,843.00:
Keroscue Oil Licences.
B00
$76,00
76.00
Marine Store Dealers' Licences,
5,000
5.625,00
625.00
Marriage Licences....
824
500.00
176.00
Money Changers' Licences,
$45
530.00
15.00
Sanitary Department,
Opium Monopoly, ..................................
Pawnbrokers Licences.............
Shooting Licences,
957.866
957,666.66
.06
39.000 100
39,000.00
255.00
155.00
Spirit Licences,
66,000
71,208.16
8,208.16
Military Expenditure,
Stamps...
227,000
327,103.84
100,103.84
l'olice, Gools.
Fire Brigade,
Charitable Allowances,
Transport,
Miscellaneous Services,.
Public Works, Recurrent,
300,252.00
295,038.00
6,213.40
105,018.00
101,613.41 |
3,404.50
5,260,00
4.034.79
1,225.21
3,000.00
9,400.92 6,400.92
173,103.00 708,976.00
200,808.49|117,705,49
519,274.89 10,298.80 199,000.00 194,417,57
4,552,43
Steam-Launch Licences,
N00
Opium Divan.....
090.00 1,550.00
190.00 1,550.00
FEES OF COURT OR OFFICE, PAYMENTS FOR SPECIFIC PUR-
POSES, AND REIMBURSEMENTS IN AID :-
Bills of Health,
2.000
2,730 00
780.00
Births and Deaths, Registration of..
138
385,50
247.50
Cargo Boat Certificates,
1,900
2.170.00
270.00
Cemetery Burials,
700
1.209.04
508,94
Cemetery Fees from Public Cemeteries for Chinese,
1,000
1,116.25
116.25
Chinese Gazette, Sale of
28
28.00
Companies, Registration of
1,300
3,425,00
2,125.00
Convict Labour and other items,
5,500
3.941.74
1,558.20
Deeds, Registration of
5,000
6,058.25 1,058,25
Discharge of Crews and Scamel,
10,000
10,175.40
175.40
Examination of Masters, Ko..
2,600
1.927.50
672.50
Fees of Court,
12,01%
13,5$2.60
1,557.66
Fees on Grant of Leases,
700
1,870.00
670.00
Fees for testing Petroleum,
350
265.00
$3.00
Gaol Expenses,-Recovery from Diplomatic, Naval and Mi-
litary Departments, Scamen and Debtors,...
1,200
2,343.15
1,143.15
Gunpowder, Storage of......
11,000
12,627.21
1,627.21
Householders, Registration of
1,415
1,519.00
104.00
Imperial Post Office, Contribution from
7,213
7,497.89
281.89
Lock Hospital, Grant-in-Aid from Admiralty,
1,016
1,056.00
40.03
Medical Examination of Emigrants,
22,000
18,794.50
TI
3,205,50
Medical Registration Fees,
10
40.00
80.00
Medical Treatment of Patients in the Civil Hospital,
22,000
26,199.20
4.199,20
Maintenance of Gap Rock Lighthouse,-Contribution from
Chinese Imperial Government towards the
700
Official Administrator and Trustec,..
1,000
Official Signatures,.....
2,850
Printed Forms, Sale of
200
Private Moorings and Buoys, Rent for
2,880
750.00 4,567.22 487.02 872.00 2,970.00
3,567.22
2,362.08
Queen's College, Fees from Scholars,
18,500
21,598,00
172.00 90,00 8,098.00
Registry Fees,
300
481.00
181.00
Refund of Police Pay,
Refund Cost of Police and other Stores,......
1,500 500
1.694.00
194.60
799.46
290.46
Shipping Crews and Seamen,.
11,000
11,106.20
105,20
Sick Stoppages from Police Force,
Steam-Launches, Surveyor's Certificate,
Survey of Steam-Ships,
800 1,500 11,000
045,91
145.91
1,710.00 i
210.00
School for Girls, Fees from Scholars,
690
Sunday Cargo-Working Permits,.
9,000
10,924.05 684.00 25,925,00
16.925,00
Trade Marks, Registration of
3,000
1,097.18
75.95 6.00
1,002.93
Overtime Fous Engagement and discharge of Crews on
Board Ship
Certificate to Chinese entering America,
20,000
1,285.00 18.600.00
1,285.00
...
1,400.00
POST OFFICE:—
Postage,...
260,000
337,170,99
77,179,99
REST OF GOVERNMENT PROPERTY, LAND AND HOUSES:-
Buildings,
Laundries,
368 625
647.43 $62.90
2:59.43
237.90
Leased Lands....
235,000
Lands not Leascul,
11.000
Markets,
70.100
235,775.7+ 10,716.27 75,005.08
775.74
+
284.73
+,965.08
Piers.....
6.200
Stone Quarries.
15,500
8,549.64 35,860.00
2,339.6-4
Slaughter House.
41,500 12,372.00
360.00 872.00
Sheep and Pig Depôts,
11,500
11,276.05
***
INTEREST,
3,000
223,95 3.000.00
MISCELLANEOUS RECEIPTS:—
Condemned Flores, &e..
1,500
Interest for use of Furniture at Government House,
145
2,203.78 117.90
703.78
114
*$7.07
Night Soil Contracts,.
27.840
28,170.00
530.00
Other Miscellaneous Receipts,
13,000
18,873.59
5.873.59
Profit on Subsidiary Coins. ...
100,000 148,044.49 48,011.49
TOTAL, exclusive of Land Sales and Water Account,...$2,336,867 2,672,107.80 350,007.06| 14,766.26|
LAND SALES,
WATER ACCOUNT-Ord. 16 of 1890, .......................................
$ 2,480,290.00 2,607,424.15215,044.87 35,810.72
205,000 188,318.57 103,000 112,732.57 9,732.57
121,631,13
Public Works, Extraordinary,
202,586.00 234,381.05 31,795.05;
TOTALK est
$ 2,004,867 2,018,159.24369,739.63 136,447.39
..$2,632,876.00 2,841,805.20 247,739.92 38,810.72
Public Works Extraordinary chargeable against the Loan, ...$
137,830 135,315.85
1,984.15
Treasury, Hongkong, 10th March, 1899.
A. M. THOMSON,
Acting Treasurer.
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