the Colony for the
Year 1891 with a comparative statement of Revenue and Expenditure for 1890 and 1891.
I also enclose for Your Lordship's information copies of the Balance Sheet of
the Water Account for 1891. These papers have been duly laid before the Legislative Council.
I have the honour to be, My Lord,
Your Lordship's Most Obedient
Humble Servant,
Withain Robining
of
Enel: 2
8th April, 1899 7 Copies
Conclosure 1.
HONGKONG.
STATEMENT SHOWING THE TOTAL REVENUE AND EXPENDITURE IN THE YEAR 1891.
7718
No. 28
Laid before the Legislative Council by Command of His Excellency the Governor, on the 11th April, 1802.
LIGHT DEES,
Boarding-house Licences,
Boat Licences,
Cargo Boat Licences,
REVENUE.
Carriage, Chair, &c., Licences,...
Chinese Passenger Ships Licences, Chinese Undertakers' Licences, Emigration Brokers Licences,... Emigration Tenement Licences,
Fines,
COLONY OF HONGKONG.
RETURN OF REVENUE AND EXPENDITURE DURING THE YEAR ENDED 31ST DECEMBER, 1891.
FEES OF COURT OR OFFICE, PAYMENTS FOR SPECIFIC PUA-
Cemetery Burials,
Sale of Chinese Gazelte,
Registration of Companica,
Estimated. Estimated.
EXPENDITURE.
Registrar General's Department,
92.
Amount
Fetal More than Less than Estimated. Expenditure. Estimated Estimated.
$
8 86.527 95,140.28 8,613,26 $1,840 52,451,24 61124 10,879 42.318.64 1,439,44
$ C.
...
39,672 39,252.75
419.25
23,165 22,226,97
10,000 7,812,23
2,187.17
$41.03
76.724 62.889.27
13,884.73
26,938 30,790.41 8,802.11
23,377
59,299.5+ 2,773.81
1,772,00
636.91
+4
235.97 22#,#3
TF2.95
1,821,10
Charge on Account of Public Debt, Pensions,
Governor and Legislature,
Colonial Secretary's Department,
Audit Department.....
Tressury,
Sarveyor General's Department, Water and Drainag? Department,
Post Office,
Harbour Master's Department,
140.00 Lighthouses, .....
Observatory,
Botanical and Afforestation Department,
116,236
56,526 7,654 11.062 4,248
140,385,01 29,909.01 | 24,894.78 857.73
5,882,00
11,688.91 4,012.03
21,059 20,652
70,855.97 7,822 6,000,90 71,978 72,982.67 67.035 73.368.31 24,908 26,434.01
...
1,004.67
Transport,
Department,
nowances, --
Miscellaneous Services, Military Expenditure, Public Works Recurrat,
Amount Estimated.
Totni More than Less than Revenne.
$
$ t.
75,000
99,650,69
č. $ 14,056,69
6,
LICENCES AND INTERNAL REVENUE NOT OTHERWISE SPE-
GIFIED:
200
Arms Ordinance,................
Assessed Tax89, ....................
446,000
220.00 997,755.42
30,00
VAL
47,244.58
Auctioneers' Licences,..
2,100
2,100.00
*+*
Billiard Tables and Bowling Alleys Licences,
1.800
1,050.00
250.00
150
150,00
5,0X
4,980,50
19.50
7,200
6,828.00
377,00
20,000
21,223.20 1,223,20
400
260.00
100
130.00
30.00
1,200
1,200.00
Stump Office.
10
10.00.
14,000
32,630,50
Forfeitures, ......
1,000
18,130.60 3.8.13.83 2,313.83
Legal Departments.
Ecclesiastical Department,
Hawkers' Licences,
5,000
4,340.50
659,50
Education,
Junk Licences,
19,000
22.602.50
3.602.50!
Medical Departments,
Marine Store Dealers' Licences,
1,000
980.00
40.00
Magistracy,
400
357.00
43.00
Police,
Chargers' Licences,
700
590.00
110.00
Opium Monopoly,
477,800
389.900.00
87,700,00
Fire Brigade,
Pawnbrokers Licences,
14,000
18,800.00
2.800.00
33.00
Shooting Liccates, ........
25.001
Spirit Licences.
41,000
19,487.82
5,487.82
Sumps
190,000
172,608.21
17,391.79
Scam-Lanch Licences,
...........................
400
477.50
77.50
POSES, AND REIMBURSEMENTE IN ÀID:-
Bills of Health, ...
Registration of Births and Deaths........
••••
2,000
2,055.00
55,00
80
96.40
8.40
Cargo Boat Certificates,
1,100
800
1,177.00 1.080.48
77.00
459.48
50
50.00
2,000
3,655,00
1,655.00
4,000
3,745.63
254.37
4,000
3.889.00
111.00
1500
1,999.00
490.00
10,000
14,986.23
4.985,23
400
375.00
26,00
1,000
650,34
349.46
Storage of Gunpowder,......
4,000
5,575.46
1,655,46
Registration of Householders,
2,000
1,599.75
400.255
Contribution from imperial Post Office
3,398
3,302.14
G35.851
Medical Examination of migrants,
Grant-in-Aid to Lock Hospital from Admiralty,
2,000
865.57
1,134.43
15,000
14,435.50
56-1.50
Medical Registration Fece,
10
10.00
Aledical Treatment of Sick Seunen, .......
8,000
14,584.37 6,584.17
Official Administrator, Assignes, &c.....
9,000
3,643,04
643.01
150
31.01
84.00!
1,200
1.420.00
220.00
Sick Stoppages from Police Force,
Registry Fees, (Merchant Shipping Act), Shipping Scamon,
275.00
25.00
9,000 11.063.00
2,995.0
800
1,099.74
299.74
Surveyor's Certificate for Steam-Launches,
1,000
1,040.00
40.00
Subsistence Money of Seameu, &c., in Gaol,
BURG
547.57
10,000
8613.77
ཟེ་
1,366.28
Registration of Trade Marks,
500
39.20
Fecs from Scholars at Victoria College,
14,000
12,247,00
1,700.00
300
2,150.00
2,803.06 2,308.06 2,177.16
2,177,131
148,000 142,770,03
2,229.97
449.86
449.85
28,000 26,245.56 170.000
1,70444
180.168.25 10,168.25 75,000 96,354.06 21,354.06
1,000
1,980,00
990,00
5,000
2,021.39
2,978.61
.༤.
1,500
1,557.04
19,740.00
160 20,000
7,000 19,514.26 12,514.26
768.82
...
-
240.00
Convict Labour and other items,
Registration of Deeds,
Fees of
Fees off
nation of Masters, &C.,
Court.
of Leases.
Grant of
taes recovered...
Expomaes
Official Signatures,..
Sale of Printed Forms,........
Survey of Steam-Ships,
Fees from School for Girls,
Sunday Cargo-Working Permits,
Refund Cost of Stores from Police, &¤«p««««s
Refund of Police Pay, ......
POST OFFICE:--
Postage.........
RENT OF QOVIENMENT PROPERTY, LAND AND HOUSES:--
Buildings.
hands not Leased, including Stone Quarries,
Leased Lands,.
Markets, including Slaughter House and Cuttle Shed,
INTEREST, *****
MISCELLANEOUS KELEIPTS:-
Condemned Stores, &C.,
Interest for use of Furniture 1 Government House
Night Buil Contract,
Other Miscellaneous Receipts,
Profit on Subsidiary Coins,
:
366.00
2,150,00
217.57
57.04 078.59
70.098
6,333.31
54661
226,633
224,219.68
2,415,32
56,872
74,030.00
2.812.34
20,492
17,772.89
2,789.61
$6,997
66.428.21
548.79
5,000
3,001.00
1,990.
15:3
4,083.29;
***
416.71
114.12
123,660,30j 11,768,56
238,572! 1285,550
421,002,01 187, 130,01
93,289.55
32,276.45
72,000 78.947.09 1,817.09
TOTAL, exclusive of Land Sales and Water Account,... 1,962,099 1,907,054.43 122,673,92 187,717.49|
LAND SALES, ......
WATER ACCOUNT-Ord, 16 of 1890,
1,682,874 1,868,078.26 248.989.81
84,740,55
100,000 51,761.47
66,496.61 60,486,41
48,238.53
Public Works, Extraordinary,
Do.
Do
820,270511,526.39
defined from Water Account, ...
TOTAL,..
$ 2,052.0982,023,302.51 |139,160.58 215,956.02)
TOTAL......
$
1 66,486.61
2,308,153 | 2,449,066,26 | 249,930.31 | 304,006,55
239,266.00
Treasury, Hongkong, 8th April, 1892.
A. F. ALVES,
Accountant.
F. U. MAY, Acting Treasurer.