433
3
"Dollars to the Public Service of the "Year 1874 being Nr. 9 of 1893.
2.
-Before referring to those
Estimates I will explain the
Colony
financial position of the Cedmy
for the current
f
wer
Year
the estimated eve
Liabilities
January next.
ww
in elucidation
wecess of Assets
the jet
berees of Afscle- 1 January 1873. $181,942. Apolo 1873.0181.942.
Echinated Revenné 1844, 281..
Probable Decreme)-
12,000. ዛ
€32,281
$1,014,223.
H
h
Estimated Expenditure § 900, 245. 80
Robabl
Probable
ecrcase
25,000 625,245, 60.
3. From the
adjoining figures Your
Birdbaths Surfs of felt. 01 December 1972, $18,997.20. Lordship will
Excers Apeti.
obsave that that estimated Eecess
amants to 188.997. 20. It has
been
a
een
necessary
decrease
to calculate upon
of estimated Revenue
if terh
aving mainly to the receipts under the Stamp Ordinance I failing to reach the amount of which the experience of the last two years justified the expectation. Trade generally has been dull, but the Stamp taxe has been most affected by the Merchants
stogh paying in specie in Foochow and Iselsewhere The Tea which they
for
ague shipped instead of by Bills drawn
JAR
in 19
4.
Dongt long.
Thus, the probable decrease
under the Dead of Stamps will
be $12,500. The whier Ocade of
Reverne under which
or
an increase
decrease is expected being