COLONIAL ESTIMATES-HONGKONG.
REVENUE DETAILED.
ESTIMATED FOR 1859. REVENUE OF 1857.
REFERENCE ΤΟ REMARKS.
COLONIAL ESTIMATES-HONGKONG.
REVENUE DETAILED.
ESTIMATED FOR 1858.
REVENUE OF 1857.
LAND REVENUE :- Lease Lands, £ 18,000 0 0 Lands not Leased, 260 0 0 Fees on grant of Leases, 50 0 0 Premium by Purchases, 300 0 0 Deposit do., RENTS, EXCLUSIVE OF LANDS:— Markets,... Brought forward, £ 55,756 5 0 £ 55,801 17 3 1/2 SALE OF GOVERNMENT PROPERTY :-- Condemned Stores, &c., 30 0 0 135 5 2 1/2 30 0 0 18,640 0 0 29,854 8 3 1/2 REIMBURSEMENTS IN AID OF EXPENSES INCURRED BY GOVERNMENT:-- 9,000 0 0 Sick stoppages from Police Force, 45 0 0 Buildings, 600 0 0 9,600 0 0 3,757 0 3 1/4 Loss of Clothing and Arms from ditto, 30 0 0 LICENSES:— Spirit Retailers,... 8,700 0 0 Pawnbrokers, 656 5 0 Auctioneers, 375 0 0 Tenement for Emigrants, 300 0 0 Stone Quarriers, Nil, Billiard Tables, and Bowling Alleys, 200 0 0 Opium Monopoly, 4,800 0 0 Boarding-house Licenses, 130 0 0 10,161 5 0 7,840 2 0 Subsistence Money of Foreign Seamen and others in Victoria Gaol, 175 0 0 Convict Labours and other items, Sale of Printed Forms, 100 0 0 60 0 0 Allowance from Diplomatic Department, on account of Jail Expenses, 500 0 0 910 0 0 403 16 6 MISCELLANEOUS RECEIPTS:— Recovery of Monies, 120 0 0 1,559 7 7 TAXES:- Police Assessment, 10,000 0 0 1,500 0 0 11,500 0 0 7,376 11 3 1/4 Lighting Rate, POSTAGES:- (Received by the Post Master-General in England.) FINES, FORFEITURES, & FEES OF COURTS:- Fines, 1,800 0 0 Forfeitures, 100 0 0 Fes, 600 0 0 2,500 0 0 3,224 17 5 FEES OF OFFICES:- On Burials, 270 0 0 Registry of Boats, 900 0 0 Do. 300 0 0 Hawkers, 100 0 0 Official Signatures, Registration of Deeds, 200 0 0 Shipping Seanien, On Colonial Registers, Emigration Brokers, 1,200 0 0 10 0 0 375 0 0 3,355 0 0 3,742 17 0 Carried forward, 55,756 5 0 55,801 17 3 1/2 SPECIAL RECEIPTS:- Superannuation contribution of European Police Force, &c., Interest on money deposited with Local Bank Corporations at 5 and 6 per cent per annum. 50 0 0 41 15 11 Under Ordinance No. 12 of 1857, 1,000 0 0 900 0 0 1,200 0 0 49 7 6 Total, £ 59,000 5 0 £ 58,891 10 1 REFERENCE TO REMARKS.
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