ments, which, it appears,
have increased by the
sum of £4,000 since
1855.
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Among these charges provided for in the Estimates for 1857, I observe have finally to a sum of £2000.
I have to desire you to furnish me with a report concerning the present condition and probable prospects of the New Magistracy Building, to which you referred in your despatch 117 of 19th July /56.
If the land revenue, although it has shown to be a great diminution since the year 1856, threaten...
you were informed by my despatch of 4th Oct that I declined to sanction the ... of the ten proposed works.
In regard to several other works undertaken by you, I have felt it my duty to warn you that they should not be undertaken unless the means at your disposal were fully sufficient.
Hong Kong, 2021
The last Parliamentary Grant was in 1855, and amounted to £8500. Two years have passed without a Grant.
By this despatch, it is seen that the estimated revenue for 1857 is £36,900 and the estimated expenditure £53,900, showing a deficiency of £17,000.
Revenue Expenditure Surplus Deficiency 1855 47,900 40,800 7,100 1857 36,900 53,900 17,000Sir John Bowring has in these two years increased his expenditure by £13,000. Some of the chief items of increase are as follows:
Establishments £4500
Public Works £8600
Police & Gaol £1300
£14,400
Some savings in other items have reduced the net increase to the above-mentioned sum of £13,000. The decrease of Revenue is £11,000. This is caused by an expected falling off in the
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