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GOVERNMENT HOUSE 21 OCT 19
Hongkong, 22nd September, 1899.
PRINTED FOR PARLIAMENT
Colonial Reports Annual $287
I have the honour to transmit to you the Blue Book for 1898, and to submit for your information the following general Report on that year:-
1.-FINANCES.
LONDON:
PRINTED FOR HER MAJESTY'S STATIONERY OFFICE, BY DARLING & SON, LTD., 1-3, GREAT ST. THOMAS APOSTLE, E.C.
1899.
The following Tables will show in succinct form the heads of Revenue and Expenditure. They are compared with those of last year; and it will be seen that during the year 1898 the Revenue has exceeded the Expenditure by $76,354.04. I have also given in tabular form the total revenue and expenditure of each year for the last five years.
Under the headings (B), (C), (D), and (E) I have drawn your attention to matters concerned with taxation, the assets and liabilities of the Colony, the Public Debt, with the provision made for its gradual liquidation, and the present state of the Currency.
(A)-GENERAL REVENUE AND EXPENDITURE.
REVENUE 1897 1898 INCREASE DECREASE Light Dues, Licences and Internal Revenue not otherwise specified, Fees of Court or Office, Payments for specific purposes, and Reimbursements in aid $1,222,512.05 $1,469,095.90 $246,583.85 $51,645.15 Post Office $187,720.79 $225,356.86 $37,636.07 Rent of Government Property-Land and Houses, interest $268,616.49 $337,179.99 $68,563.50 Miscellaneous $396,125.89 $401,114.11 $4,988.22 $4,576.81 $158,607.86 $197,715.79 $39,107.93 TOTAL, exclusive of Land Sales and Water Account $2,352,366.32 $2,672,107.80 $319,741.48 $67,108.10 Land Sales $224,500.59 $110,047.79 $114,452.80 Water Account $21,952.80 $112,782.67 $91,181.72 $2,684.78 $2,686,914.70 $2,918,159.24 DEDUCT DECREASE $158,289.82 NETT INCREASE $231,295.04The Right Honourable
JOSEPH CHAMBERLAIN, M.P.,
Her Majesty's Principal Secretary of State for the Colonies,
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