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occur under the heads "Licences, etc.", "Rent of Government
Property, Land and Houses" and "Miscellaneous Receipts"
and are due severally to the reduction in the monthly fee
for the Opium Farm, to the difficulties experienced in the
first collection of Crown Rent in the New Territories on
a revised rent-roll, and to conditions unfavourable to the
sale of subsidiary coins. Heavy financial lesses that
during the year have been experienced by the Chinese ComTM
-munity are probably accountable for the decrease in the
returns from "Land Sales".
3.
of the large increases in Expendi-
-ture under the heads "Post Office" and "Miscellaneous
Services" the disbursement of arrears on account of the
Eastern Mail Subsidy on the one hand, and on the other,
expenses in connection with the claim of Messrs. Howard
and Stephens for compensation on account of Marine Lot
No. 184, are explanatory. The $37,428 excess Military Ex-
-penditure includes an overpayment of $34,493 which will be
deducted from the Contribution payable in respect of 1906.
Decreases generally are due to the prevalence of a high
rate of exchange throughout the year: on the item "Sanitary
Department" mere particularly to the Colony's comparative
immunity
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