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HONG KONG 1896.
Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General on the
Account of Receipts and Expenditure of the Treasurer of
HONG KONG for the year 1896.
1.
The Revenue for the year 1896 amounted to
$2,250,180, or, inclusive of Land Sales and Water Account,
to $2,609,879. The Expenditure during the same period
was $2,474,910..
There was therefore a surplus of Revenue
of $134,969.
Revenue.
2.
The total Revenue for the year amounting, as
stated above, to $2,609,879, was $321,513 more than the
Estimate of $2,288,366, and larger also than the Revenue of
1895 by $123,650.
The estimated receipts of Revenue were exceeded
under all Heads with the exception of "Interest" and
"Miscellaneous Receipts", which showed a deficiency compared
with the Estimates of $5,000 and $178 respectively.
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