CO129-291 - Governor Sir Blake - 1899 [5-6]

COLONY OF HONGKONG.

RETURN OF REVENUE AND EXPENDITURE DURING THE YEAR ENDED 31 DECEMBER, 1898.

REVENUE.

Amount Estimated Total Revenue More than Less than Estimated, Estimated $ $ $ LICENCES AND INTERNAL REVENUES NOT OTHERWISE SPECIFIED:- Arms Ordinance 350 Assessed Taxes 466,419.37 460,000 Auctioneers' Licences 70 Billiard Tables and Bowling Alleys Licences 1,100.00 2,000 Boarding-house Licences 1,197.92 2,000 Boat Licences 3,277.30 6,577 Cargo Boat Licences 11,209.50 11,786 Carriage, Chair, &c. Licences 44,025.60 #2,0LU Chinese Passenger Ships Licences $10.00 130 Chinese Undertakers' Licences 170.00 200 Dog Licences 2,728.50 2,500 Emigration Brokers Licences 500.00 1000 Hawkers Licences 60,414.50 11,000 Junk Licences 29,354.00 28,000 Kerosene Oil Licences 576.0 500 Light Boats 14,903.40 16,770.00 Marine Store Dealers' Licences 5,625.00 3,000 Marriage Licence 324 Money Changers' Licences $45 Opium Monopoly 857,666.6 357,1684 Pawnbrokers Licences 66,000 Shooting Licences Spirit Licences 227,000 Stamps 200 Steam-Launch Licences 500.00

EXPENDITURE.

Charge on Account of Public Debt, Pensions Amount Total More than Less than Estimate, Expenditure Estimated $ $ Governor and Legislature 42,933.00 Colonial Secretary's Department 27,807 51,809.58 Audit Department 10,000,000 6,612.87 Treasury 22,887.00 22,409.02 Public Works Department 92,782.60 BUS74.10 Post Office 211,788.00 Registrar General's Department 3,341.69 Harbour Master's Department 62,813.64 241,561.52 Legal Departments 73,980.06 70,092.45 Medical Departments 108,163.00 118,502.48 Magistracy 19,602.00 21,900,00 Sanitary Department .66 Fire Brigade 3,813.00 Miscellaneous Services 173,103.00 300,502.60 Military Expenditure 508,976.00 619,271.89 Public Works, Extraordinary 202,558.00 21,891,05

FEES OF COURT OR OFFICE, PAYMENTS FOR SPECIFIC PURPOSES, AND REIMBURSEMENTS IN AID:

Bills of Health 2,000 9,780.00 750,000 Births and Deaths, Registration of 188 385.50 247.50 Cargo Boat Certificates 1,900 2,170.00 270.00 Cemetery Burials 700 1,963.84 508.04 Cemetery Fees from Public Cemeteries for Chinese 1,000 1,116.25 Chinese Gazette, Sale of 2 28.00 Companies, Registration of 1,800 8,425.00 Convict Labour and other items 3,500 3,941.71 Deeds, Registration of 5,000 Discharge of Crews and Seamen 10,000 6,038.23 10,175.40 Examination of Masters, &c. 2,600 1,927.50 672.60 Fees of Court 12,012 13,382.66 1,667.36 Fees on Grant of Leases 700 1,870.00 $70.00 Fees for testing Petroleum 350 265.00 $5,00

POST OFFICE

Postage ZAD,000 1,710,00 11,000 10,824.05 690 684.00 9,010 26,925,00 16,025.00

RENT OF GOVERNMENT PROPERTY, LAND AND HOUSES

Buildings BRA 647.43 259.48 Laundries 625 562.90 237.90 Traded Lands 285,000 285,775.74 775.74 Lands not Leased Markets 11,009 10,710.27 Slaughter Houses 75,066.06 Sheep and Pig Stalls TLT 11,500 11,970.09

MISCELLANEOUS RECEIPTS

Colonial Stores, Sale of 1,500 Hire of Furniture at Government House 2,203.78 1,703.78 Night Soil Contracts Other Miscellaneous Receipts 18,878.59 3,878.59 Profit on Subsidiary Coins 117 28,476.00 634.00

TOTAL, exclusive of Land Sales and Water Account....$ 2,334,967 | 2,872,107.80 1850,007.06 14,766.26

LAND SALES

WATER ACCOUNT—Ord. 15 of 1890

TOTAL

Treasury, Hongkong, 10th March, 1899.

A. M. THOMSON,

Acting Treasurer,