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COLONIAL ESTIMATES-HONGKONG.
EXPENDITURE DETAILED.
COLONIAL ESTIMATES--HONGKONG.
EXPENDITURE DETAILED.
WORKS AND BUILDINGS.
Pokfoolum Reservoir, $ 12,000 Repairs to Buildings, 1,000 Maintenance of Water Works, Do. of Telegraphs, 1,300 Do. of Protestant Cemetery, 1,000 LIGHTHOUSES. Maintenance, &c., of Buildings, and Apparatus, 3,000 Interest on Loan from Special Fund, for cost of Lighthouses, and Sinking Fund (3rd year), 2,000 TOTAL, .. 5,000 New Water Police Station, 20,000 Conversion of Lock into a General Hospital, 15,000 Observatory and Time Ball, 10,000 GOVERNMENT GARDENS, AND PLANTATIONS. Maintenance of Government Gardens, 2,000 Tree Planting, 10,000 Fittings for Offices in different Departments, $ 500 Miscellaneous Works, 2,000 TOTAL, .. 12,000 Sinking Fund for Praya Works Loan, ....... 10,000 Sinking Fund for Breakwater at Causeway Bay to form Typhoon refuge for Boats, (money to be taken from Special Fund), 1,000 MISCELLANEOUS SERVICES. TOTAL, .. 79,800 Lighting Street Lamps, 25,000 Expenses of the Clock Tower, ... 1,000 ROADS, STREETS AND BRIDGES. Commission to Crown Agents, ... 1,400 Telegraph Service, 4,000 Rent of Marine Lot No. 66 (Crosby's Store), 1,400 Maintenance of Piers, 1,000 Subscription to Reuter's Telegrams, 4,000 Drainage and Sewerage, 13,000 Other Miscellaneous Services, ... $ 300 Roads out of Victoria .. 8,000 Road and Street Contingencies, 6,000 TOTAL, 87,800 Re-making Streets in Taipingshan, Sai-ying Poon, Sheung Wan and Chung Wan, 9,000 Repairs to Bridges, 1,000 Watering Streets, 220 Widening Kennedy Road, 1,000 MILITARY EXPENDITURE. $ Miscellaneous Services, Contribution to Imperial Government in aid of Military Expenditure, (£20,000) at the current exchange of the day, say, 3/10), 104,348 Colonial Defences,-Expenses of the Volunteers ....... 2,400 TOTAL, .... 106,748 TOTAL, .... 40,52033
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