COLONY OF HONGKONG.
RETURN OF REVENUE AND EXPENDITURE DURING THE YEAR ENDED 31st DECEMBER, 1899.
REVENUE.
Amount Estimated.
Total Revenue,
More than Less than Estimated. Estimated,
EXPENDITURE.
Amount Total More than Less than Estimated. Expenditure. Estimated. Estimated,
$
$
(..
LIGHT DUES,
LICENCES AND INTERNAL REVENUE NOT OTHERWISE SPE-
51,000
52,406.93
$ 1,408.93
"".
$
C.
CIPLED-
Arms Ordinance,..
430
Assessed Taxes,
486,000
381.00 519,184.42
40.00
33,184.42
Auctioneers' Licences,
1,500
Billiard Tables and Bowling Alleys Licences,
860
1,500.00 1,100.00
250.00
Boarding-house Licences,
Charge on Account of Public Debt, Pensions,
Governor and Legislature.
Colonial Secretary's Department,
Audit Department,
Treasury,
Public Works Department,.
$ 160,808.00
$ 158,819.38
$
$ 1,088.62
162,000,00
170,646.26
8.846.20
42,303.00
48,889.22
6,586.22
30.027.00
32,187,34
1,260.34
10,000.00
0,518.72
481.28
22.735.00
22,581.83
353.17
92,990.00
93.009.771
919.77
3,000
2,143.75
TE
856.25
Boat Licences,.......
Post Office,
236,567.00
237,902.76
1,335.76
6,500
10,053,30
3,553.30
Cargo Boat Licences,
Begistrar General's Department,
13,171.00
14,448.22
1,277.22
+
11,800
11.471.20
328.80
Harbour Master's Department,
63,586.00!
62.983.00
653.00
Carriage, Chair, &c., Licences,.
13,000
46,225.40 3,225.40
Chinese l'assenger Ships Licences,
Lighthouses,
15,770.00
11,864.44
3,905,56
350
275.00!
75.00
Chinese Undertakers' Licences,
Observatory,
19,436 00
13,068.32
367.68
200
140.00
00.00
Dog Licences,
Fines, .....
Forfeitures,
Hawkers' Licences,
Junk Licences.
Stamp Office,
3,692.00
3.689.97
2.03
2,500
Emigration Brokers' Licences,...
2,709.00
209.00
Botanical and Afforestation Department,
18,103.50
18.293.87 190.37!
1,000
800.00
200.00
40,100
Legal Departments,
73,462.00! 83.711.52 10,249,59
35,030.67
5,069.33
Ecclesiastical,
2,200.00
1,810.00
390,00
5,720
14,045,60
8,325.60
Education,
82,000.00 76,152.57
6.847.43
6,700
9,537.50
2,837.50
28,000
Medical Departments,
112,609.00
113,663.19 1,054.19
36,924.00
8,324.00
Magistracy,
19,588.00
21.353.58 1,765.58
Kerosene Oil Licences,
560
625.00
65.00
Police,
Marine Store Dealers' Licences.
5.400
5,805.00
405.00
Gaols,
Marriage Licences...
307,648.30
339,657.27 32,008,97
Money Changers' Liceuces,
545
670.00 485.00
305.00
Fire Brigade,
60.00
Opium Monopoly,
Sanitary Department,
113,007.00
122,605.05 9,598.06
372,000
372,000.00
Charitable Allowances, .......
5,260.00
4,101.64
1,158.36
Opium Divan,
1.200
1,750.03
350.00
Pawnbrokers Licences.....
Transport
8,000.00
9,830.96 6,636.96
39.000
41,100.00
2,100.00
Special Service,
14,000.00
***
14,000,00
Shooting Licences,
100
Special Fruit Licences,
Spirit Licences, .......
68,600
$20.00 315.00 $2,501.50
13,904.50
420.00
315.00
Public Works, Recurrent,
Miscellaneous Services,
176.336.00
518,033.54886,697,54
Military Expenditure,
561,573.00
207,000.00
619.388.53 87,815.53 198,46 1.65
8,535.35
Stamps....
300,000
360,999.15
60,999.1a
Steam-Launch Licences,
5000
1.093.50
293.50
FEES OF COURT OK ÖFFICE, PAYMENTS FOR SPECIFIC PUR-
POSES, AND REIMBURSEMENTS IN AID:
Bills of Health,
2,200
2.640.00
440.00
Births and Deaths, Registration of..............
160
330.50
165.50
Cargo Boat Certificates,
1,900
2,046.00
146.00
Cemetery Burials,
700
1.128.25
428.25
Cemetery Fees from Public Cemeteries for Chinese,
1,200
1,175.00
25.00
Chinese Gazette, Sale of
27
34.00
7.00
Companies, Registration of
1,500
6,638.00
4,138.00
Convict Labour and other items,
14,000.
4,667.41
9,432.59
Certificate to Chinese entering America,
- 15,000
17,175.00
2,175,00
Deeds, Registration-of
Engagement and Discharge of Seamen,
4,600 22,200
9,968.50 5,468.50
:
Examination of Masters, &c.,
2,100
21,877.80
57.50
Fees of Court,.....
Faesen Grant of Legesse
Fees for testing Petroleum,
Gaol Expenses,--Recovery from Diplomatic, Navar
litary Departmelits, Senmeu anil Debtors..........
Gunpowder, Storage of......
18,000
2,385.70 1.276,41
Householders, Registration of
1,270
1,877,50
$1,276.41 607.50
Imperial Post Office, Contribution from
Jellunt
Lock Hospital, Grant-in-Aid from Admiralty,.
1.045
1,026,92 !
Medical Examination of Emigrants,
20,000
19,245.75
18.08 751.25
Medical Registration Fees, ......!..
10
Medical Treatment of Patients in the Civil Hospital,
25,000
50.00 25,253.39
40.00 253.39
Maintenance of Gap Rock Lighthouse-Contribution from
Chinese Imperial Government towards the
750
750.00
LET
Official Administrator and Trustee,......
3,000
6,414.50
Official Signatures,.
460
036.02
Printed Forms, Sale of
200
274.00
3.414.80
176.02
74.00
Private Moorings and Buoys, Bent for
2,380
3,000.00
120.00
Queen's College, Fees from Scholars,
25,000
27,245.00
2,245.00
Registry Fees,
300
520.00
220.00
Refund of Police Pay,
1,500
1,744.15
244.15
Refund Cost of Police and other Stores,......
500
755.54
255.51
Sick Stoppages from Police Force,.
800
1,241.08
441.08
Steam-Launches, Surveyor's Certifiente.
1,500
1,920.00
420.00
Survey of Steam-Ships,
11,000
11,678.61 |
678.61
School for Girls, Fees from Scholars,
Sunday Cargo-Working Permits,
Trade Marks, Registration of
715 15,000 9,500
772.50
57.50
21,825.00 4,719.00
6,825.00 1,219.00
POST OFFICE :--
Postage...
330,000
317,909.86 i
12.090.64
REST OF GOVERNMENT PROPERTY, LAND AND HOUSES:-
Buildings,
Laundries,
360 700
592.00 1,200.00 500.00
32.00
Leased Lands......
232,000
248.441.77 16,441.77
Lands not Leased.
11,000
15,298.18 4,298.18
Markets,
73,700 80,901.38 5,201.38
Stone Quarries,
Piers........
Slaughter House,
15,000 12,780.46
2,219,54
15,860 18,600.00 2,740.00 44,000 45,000.00 1,000.00
Sheep and Pig Depôts,
INTEREST,
11,000 1,500
11,673.21
673.21
1,500.00
MISCELLANEOUS RECEIPTS:-
Condemned Stores, &c.,
1,500
2,239.24
739.24
Interest for use of Furniture at Government House,
145
145.00
Night Soil Contracts,
27,840
30,384,00 2,544.00
Other Miscellaneous Receipts,
15,000
Profit on Subsidiary Coins,
100,000
168,553,25
60,307.76 45,307.76 68,553.25
TOTAL, exclusive of Land Sales and Water Account,...$ | 2,575,187 |2,865,759.76 [328,008,44|33,285,68|
LAND SALES, .....
WATER ACCOUNT-Ord. 16 of 1890, ............
TOTAL,
200,000 617,824.72 | 417,824.72
111,000 126,558.77 15,558.77
Treasury, Hongkong, 12th April, 1900.
$
Public Works, Extraordinary, ..............................
2,563,771.80 | 3,031,131,60|506,042.28, 38,682,48
310,500,00
181,660,76
178,889.24
$2,886,187 3,610,148.25 | 757,201.93 33.285.68
TOTAL..........................
..$ | 2,874,271.80| 3,162,792.34|506,042.28 || 217,521,72
Public Works Extraordinary chargeable against the New Loan, $
183,700
121,240.10
62,459,90
A. M. THOMSON, Treasurer.
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