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COLONIAL ESTIMATES-HONGKONG.
EXPENDITURE DETAILED.
CHARITABLE ALLOWANCES.
$
The Sisters of Charity, $1,800-Reformatory, $600-Other Allowances, $1,600,
4,000
COLONIAL ESTIMATES HONGKONG.
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EXPENDITURE DETAILED.
LIGHTHOUSES.
Maintenance, &c., of Buildings, and Apparatus,
Interest on Loan from Special Fund, for cost of Lighthouses, and Sinking Fund (4th year),
TOTAL
$
1,000
2,000
$
3,000
TRANSPORT.
Passage Allowances to Officers,
3,000
Passage Allowances on Sick Leave to Government Officers with Salaries not exceeding £300,
1,500
TOTAL,
GOVERNMENT GARDENS, AND PLANTATIONS.
$
$
4,500
Maintenance of Government Gardens,
2,000
Tree Planting,
12,000
500
Travelling Expenses,
250
Garden Seats,
WORKS AND BUILDINGS.
TOTAL,
14,750
Pok-tú-lam Reservoir,
1,000
Repairs to Buildings,
12,000
Maintenance of Water Works,
5,000
Do. of Telegraphs,
1,000
Do. of Protestant Cemetery,
750
New Water Police Station,
35,000
Completing Observatory and Time Ball,
20,000
Fittings for Offices in different Departments,
500
MISCELLANEOUS SERVICES.
$
New Iron Telegraph Poles,
1,500
Lunatic Asylum,
6,000
26,000
Entrance Lodge, Gates, &c., Civil and Lock Hospitals,
1,000
Lighting Street Lamps,
1,000
Public Urinals,
1,000
Expenses of the Clock Tower,
Maintenance of Praya Wall,
2,000
1,400
Miscellaneous Works,
Commission to Crown Agents,
3,000
4,000
Sinking Fund for Praya Works Loan,
10,000
Telegraph Service,
Sinking Fund for Breakwater at Causeway Bay to form Typhoon refuge for Boats, (money to be taken from Special Fund),
1,400
Rent of Marine Lot No. 66 (Crosby's Store),
5,000
Subscription to Reuter's Telegrams,
1,000
3,000
TOTAL,
104,750
Other Miscellaneous Services,
87,800
TOTAL,
ROADS, STREETS AND BRIDGES.
$
Maintenance of Piers,
500
Drainage and Sewerage,
10,000
Roads out of Victoria,
Road and Street Contingencies,
Re-making Streets in Taiping-shan, Sai-ying-pun, Chiêng-vai and Chung-Wang
8,000 8,000 10,000
MILITARY EXPENDITURE.
$
Repairs to Bridges,
1,000
Watering Streets,
500
Widening Kennely Road,
1,000
Repairing Timber Wharf, Commissariat Lane,
1,000
Reforming Main Street at Shan-ki-wán,
Contribution to Imperial Government in aid of Military Expenditure, (£20,000 at the current exchange of the day, say, 3/10),
Colonial Defences,-Expenses of the Volunteers,
104,348
2,400
1,000
Stone Steps at Duddell Street,
2,000
Repairing No. 13 Bridge, Aberdeen and Little Hongkong Road,
1,300
106,748
Miscellaneous Services,
3,000
TOTAL,
TOTAL,
$
47,300
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