SUPPLEMENTARY ESTIMATES--HONGKONG, 1878.
STATEMENT OF THE ASSETS AND LIABILITIES OF COLONY OF HONGKONG, ON THE 31ST DECEMBER, 1878.
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SUPPLEMENTARY ESTIMATES--HONGKONG, 1878.
Votes in excess of the Estimates for 1878, to be included in the Supplementary Appropriation Ordinance, 1878.
587
ESTABLISHMENTS.
AMOUNT SANCTIONED BY THE COUNCIL.
ACTUAL EXCESS.
COLONIAL SECRETARY :---
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Salary to Chinese Interpreter,
ASSETS.
LIABILITIES.
Allowance to Mr. WODEHOUSE, for extra work in the translation of
Chinese Petitions,
2,400,00
480.00
Allowance for a Chinese Clerk,........
By Monies deposited in Banks at interest,
360,000.00 To Deposits not available,....
46,749.00
120.00
27
Silver Currency,
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6,795,00 Balances of Estates not yet paid,
3,000.00
37
Copper Currency,.
3,600.00
Refund of Taxes, for void houses,
1,037.11
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Actual Excess, ..
Balance in Bank at Current Account,
107,708.49
27
General Post Office, London,
4,878.87
AUDITOR GENERAL:-
1,085.18
22
Balance in hands of Crown Agents,
22,900.50
25
,, Special Fund, Deposit in London,
transferred,
47,058.82
excess,
Contingencies-Printing Forms and Documents for all Departments,
757.85
Remittances not matured,
15.
31
73
Balance due by Government of India
(Calcutta),
Loan from Special Fund, for Light-
houses,
36,000.00
Coals, for all Departments, excess,
604.92
92.18
1,862.77
32
21
Advances and other sums to be re-
covered,
Loan from Special Fund, for Praya
Works,...
30,000.00
1,429,39
Actual Excess,..
Pensions dur,
4,039.00
23
ECCLESIASTICAL:-
1,041.28
Revenue in Arrears,
61,913.55
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Pensions due to ex-Police Constables,...
2,500.00
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Officers' Remittances not yet paid,..
3,182.00
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Loss in Exchange on account of the Salaries of Colonial Chaplain and
of Sexton and Clerk, being paid in England at 4/2,
72.72
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Military Contribution,
28,402.36
19
Expenditure in Arrears,
60,000.00
Actual Excess,.
EDUCATIONAL :-
72.72
TOTAL ASSETS,$
564,432.11
Total Liabilities,..
264,397.16
Balance to the Credit of the Colony,...$ 300,031.95|
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Four months' half pay to Mr. STEWART to make up his full pay on
Vacation Leave,
520.00
Remuneration to Dr. EITEL, as Acting Inspector of Schools, during) Mr. STEWART's absence, at 400 guineas per annum, from 7th March to 31st December,
1,647,48
$
564,432.11
Half Salary of 2nd Master, to enable Mr. ARTHUR, who was Acting,
to receive full salary of the Office,
630.00
Salary to Mr. MURRAY, as Assistant Supernumerary Master, owing to Mr. BALL's blindness, from 16th April to 31st May, $80 per month, Salary to Mr. MunnAY, as Acting oth Master, from 1st June to 31st
December, at $120 per mouth,
120.00
840.00
Allowance to Mr. MURRAY, for Chinese Teacher, at $10 per mouth,-
60.00
3,817.48
Actual Excess,.
2,387.58
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