COLONIAL ESTIMATES-HONGKONG.
REVENUE DETAILED.
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ESTIMATED for 1870.
REVENUE OF 1868.
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COLONIAL ESTIMATES-HONGKONG.
REVENUE DETAILED.
ESTIMATED FOR 1870.
REVENUE OF 1868.
LAND REVENUE:- $ c. Lease Lands, 130,000.00 Lands not Leased including Stone Quarries, 6,500.00 Fees on Grant of Leases.. 50.00 Premium by Purchases, RENTS, EXCLUSIVE OF LANDS :--- Markets, Buildings, LICENSES:- Brought forward, - . 729,685.00 1,072,869.12 136,550.00 150,211.28 30,000.00 16,000.00 SALE OF GOVERNMENT PROPERTY -- Condemned Stores, &c., 500.00 2,364.80 46,000.00 49,795.60 MINT:- Spirit Retailers, 30,000.00 Pawnbrokers, 8,000.00 Auctioneers, 4,000.00 Tenements for Emigrants,. 150.00 Emigration Brokers, 2,000.00 Sale of Machinery, REIMBURSEMENTS IN AID OF EXPENSES INCURRED BY GOVERNMENT:— 19,038.69 Billiard Tables, and Bowling Alleys, 1,200.00 C. Opium Monopoly,. 110,000.00 Boarding-houses, 400.00 Sick Stoppages from Police Force, 1,500.00 Marriage, 50.00 Loss of Clothing and Arms from ditto, 50.00 Chinese Undertakers,. 50.00 Money Changers, Marine Store Dealers, TAXES:- Stamps, 700.00 Police Assessments, 2,500.00 Subsistence Money of Seamen, and others in Victoria Gaol, 120.00 159,050.00 414,661.76 94,000.00 Medical Treatment of Sick Seamen, and others from Civil Hospital, 4,200.00 120,000.00 Water Rate, Lighting Rate, Fire Brigade Rate,. POSTAGE,. 30,000.00 21,000.00 Grant in aid of Lock Hospital Expenses from Admiralty, 3,840.00 9,000.00 Convict Labor and other items, 20.00 274,000.00 62,000.00 322,998.29 62,977.80 Sale of Printed Forms, 700.00 FINES, FORFEITURES & FEES OF COURT:- Fines, 13,000.00 Forfeitures, 1,500.00 Fees, 8,000.00 Recovery from Diplomatic, Naval and Mili- tary Dep on account of Gaol Expenses, 2,000.00 Contribution from Imperial Post Office, 0,000.00 Sale of Chinese Gazette, 50.00 17,500.00 28,301.84 FEES OF OFFICE:- Incidental, including Fees from Scholars at Central School,. 1,300.00 On Cemetery Burials, 800.00 19,780.00 10,421.94 Licenses for Junks, &c., Ord. 6 of 1866,. 8,500.00 Passes 21 do., do., 6,000.00 MISCELLANEOUS RECEIPTS :-- Registry of Boats, 3,000.00 Do. Hawkers,. Do. Servants, &c., Do. ,, Cargo Boats and Crews,. 21 Cargo Boats Certificates, Ord. 15 of 1860,. Registration of Householders, Ord. 7 of 1866, "" 1,200.00 Interest,. 10,000.00 1,700.00 200.00 Storage of Gunpowder, 10,000.00 2,500.00 Other Miscellaneous Receipts, 1,700.00 do., 300.00 21,700.00 20,125.84 Official Signatures,. 60.00 Registration of Deeds, 1,200.00 SPECIAL RECEIPTS :- Shipping Seamen,. 6,500.00 Examination of Masters, &c., Ord. 17 of 1860, 600.00 Ship Surveys, Colonial Registers, 75.00 Under Ordinance No. 10 of 1867, TOTAL,. 10,000.00 781,665.00 9,785.80 1,134,106.19 Merchant Shipping Act, 700.00 Registry of Carriages, &c., Ord. 6 of 1863,. 1,000.00 Registration of Companies, 250.00 34,585.00 43,424.55 Carried forward, .8 729,685.00 1,072,369.12REFERENCE
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