# COMPARATIVE TABLE OF REVENUE AND EXPENDITURE IN 1854 AND 1855
## REVENUE
1854 1855 INCREASE DECREASE Land Revenue, Rents, exclusive of Lands, Spirit £41,131 £1,856 14s Pawnbrokers' Auctioneers' Salt Brokers' £656 5s Licenses, do., £156 5s do., Stone Quarry £427 1s 8d do, Billiard Tables do., £104 11s 8d Opium Dealers' do., £3,327 0s 9d Boarding-house Keepers' Licenses, Burials, Deed Registry, £689 2s 14d £49 13s 14d Colonial Register, £905 1s 2d Survey, Tax,-Police Assessment, £2,676 6s 8d £2,512 10s 7d £802 1s 8d Fines of Courts, £218 15s Forfeitures of do., Fees of Fees of Offices :- On Marriages, £478 2s 6d Official Signatures and Seal, £31 5s Registration of Boats and £2,558 4s £102 18s 4d Hawkers, £3,917 3s 6d £1,311 4s Sailing Letters and Passes, £159 14s 3d £924 12s Shipping Seamen, Sale of Government Property, £15,809 5s 9d Reimbursements in Aid of Expenses incurred by Government, £402 15s 10d Miscellaneous Receipts, £11,825 10s 8d £27,634 16s £2,273 10s 10d £2,158 11s £94## EXPENDITURE
1854 1855 INCREASE DECREASE Governor, £2,953 13s 4d £2,685 4s 9d £268 8s 6d Colonial Secretary, Treasurer, £145 16s Auditor, £62 10s Clerk of Councils, £51 0s 10d Surveyor General, £2,544 7s 5d £2,456 12s 8d £87 14s 9d Registrar General, £1,587 11s £1,577 11s £10 Harbour Master, £701 10s 3d £590 2s 9d £622 2s 2d £111 8s 1d Marriage Registrar, £19 11s 9d Emigration Officer, Police-rate Assessors & Collectors, £1,855 17s 7d £104 16s 2d Judicial, £1,322 6s 5d £398 6s 11d £1,317 3s 10d £50 8s £118 0s 5d £126 2s 7d Ecclesiastical, £5,763 9s 5d Educational, £973 11s 8d £110 1s 6d £863 10s 2d Medical, £499 15s 10d £702 14s 3d £202 18s 5d Police and Gaols, £7,073 5s £7,073 5s £111 13s 4d £111 13s 4d £9 7s 6d £924 3s 4d £241 13s 4d £205 3s 4d £195 8s 4d £9 15s Establishments, £25,799 £26,073 3s 10d £1,399 13s 5d £1,359 13s 6d £87 14s 9d £757 9s 11d £227 17s 7d £110 13s 6d £1,420 4s 5d £365 1s 9d £1,327 8s 4d £50 £200 9s 7d £123 4s 8d £6,074 13s 7d £736 16s 9d £137 2s 4d £330 £7,938 7s 10d Revenue Services, £97 17s 11d £33 5s 1d £10 4s 6d £0 8s Education, £82 9s 2d £2 17s £101 £311 4s 2d £236 14s 11d £27 0s 10d £14 £169 15s 10d Pensions, Retired Allowances, Gratuities, £864 19s 4d £1,125 10s £25 8s 4d £670 15s £78 13s Administration of Justice, £125 8s 4d £8 £4 Hospital, £179 3s 4d £11 9s 2d £202 5s 7d £76 8s £13 19s 2d Police and Gaols, £212 8s 8d £494 18s 8d £473 8s 10d £56 19s 9d £4 15s 10d £282 16s 1d £483 9s 6d Special £271 3s 2d £19 9s £8 3s £3 4s £70 7s 5d £225 £101 0s 10d £251 7s 8d £368 11s 4d £117 3s 7d £5 9s £37 0s 2d £667 0s 9d £43 18s 1d £661 11s 9d £6 17s 11d Rent, £1,599 1s 11d Transport, £1,081 13s 4d £1,852 7s 5d Works and Buildings, £225 12s 7d £253 5s 6d Roads, Streets, and Bridges, £4,589 5s 9d £785 9s 11d Conveyance of Mails, £648 5s 11d £296 3s 5d Land or House Purchased, £174 8s 4d £835 3s 8d Special Expenses, £1 0s 10d £1,534 12s 3d £609 11s 1d £3,767 14s 5d £886 6s 3d £174 8s 4d £1 0s 10d Total, £27,045 3s 5d £47,973 11s 11d Deduct Decreases £124 3s 4d Nett Increase, £20,928 7s Total, £34,635 0s 1d Deduct Decrease, £62 14s 7d Nett Increase, £7,804 5sVictoria, Hongkong, January the 7th, 1856.
R. RIENAECKER, Colonial Treasurer,