CO129-175 - Sir Kennedy - 1876 [9-12]

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COLONIAL ESTIMATES-HONGKONG.

EXPENDITURE DETAILED.

ROADS, STREETS, AND BRIDGES.

Sewerage in Hongkong, £4166.13. 4 $20,000.00 Improvements at British Kowloon, £208. 6. 8 $1,000.00 Roads and Streets Contingencies.... £2812.10. 0 Street Improvements, Taipingshan, $13,500.00 Repairs to Roads out of Victoria, £208. 6. 8 $1,000.00 Do. to Bridges,.. £208. 6. 8 $1,000.00 Watering Streets, £1,250. 0. 0 Maintenance of Piers, $6,000.00 Bowrington Bridge, £208. 6. 8 $1,000.00 Widening Victoria Peak Road,... £208. 6. 8 $1,000.00 Miscellaneous Services, £416.13. 4 $2,000.00 Do. £416.13. 4 $2,000.00 TOTAL, £10,954. 3. 4 $49,220.00

LIGHTHOUSES.

Maintenance, &c., of Buildings, and Apparatus, £208. 6. 8 $1,000.00

MISCELLANEOUS SERVICES.

Lighting Street Lamps, £4,583. 6. 8 $22,000.00 Expenses of the Clock Tower, £208. 6. 8 $1,000.00 Commission to Crown Agents, £250. 0. 0 $1,200.00 Telegraph Service, £620.10. 8 $2,500.00 Allowance to the City Hall for Salary of Librarian and Curator of the Museum, £250. 0. 0 $1,200.00 Grant to the Native District Watchmen, £410.13. 4 $2,000.00 Rent of Marine Lot No. 66, (Crosby's Store,) £291.13. 4 $1,400.00 Grant to St. John's Cathedral for the use of the Troops, £104. 3. 4 $500.00 Other Miscellaneous Services, £1,041.13. 4 $5,000.00 TOTAL, £7,666.13. 4 $38,800.00

MILITARY CONTRIBUTION.

Contribution to Imperial Government in aid of Military Expenditure, (£20,000 at the current exchange of the day say 3/10), £21,739. 3. 4 $104,348.00

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