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HONG KONG, 1895,
Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General on the Account of
Receipts and Expenditure of the Treasurer of HONG KONG for the year 1895.
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Financial position of the Colony.
1. The Revenue for the year 1895 amounted to
$2,275,578, or, inclusive of Land Sales and Water Account,
to $2,486,229.
The Expenditure during the same period was
$2,972,373, and thus exceeded the Revenue by $486,144.
The Statement of Assets and Liabilities at
the close of the year showed an excess of Assets over
Liabilities of $557,374.
Revenue.
2. The total Revenue of the year, amounting,
as stated above, to $2,486,229, was $406,703 more than the
Estimate of $2,079,526, and larger also than the Revenue of
1894 by $207,701.
The estimated receipts of Revenue were
exceeded
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