THE GENERAL RESULT OF THE ESTIMATES FOR THE YEAR 1856 WILL BE,
Estimated Expenditure for 1856,
£44,306 7 0
Do. Revenue do.,
32,000 0 0
Excess of Expenditure over Revenue,
£12,306 7 0
Actual Surplus on hand 1st April, 1855,...
£8,756 6 7
Estimated Revenue for 1855,...
24,200 0 0
Supplementary Estimate of do.....
12,800 0 0
£45,756 6 7
Amounts struck off Liabilities and part transferred to the Estimate for 1856,
1,307 6 0
47,063 12 7
Estimated Expenditure of the year 1855,
£31,033 0 0.
Additional Expenditure to be incurred during the year on account of Increase under Salaries, Gratuities, and Conveyance of a large number of Convicts to Penal Settlements, &c.,
1,800 0 0
32,833 0 0
£4,230 12 7
Estimated Surplus Balance on 31st December, 1856,...
£1,924 5 7
Colonial Treasury, Hongkong, 7th August, 1855.