HKG-CAR1844-1886

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1841-1886

REPORTS EXHIBITING THE PRESENT STATE

Comparative Statement of Revenue.

Total Revenue collected in 1870 - Add amount received from Imperial Post Office towards the maintenance of the postal agencies in China and Japan

£ S. d = 38,034 11 8 186,886.00 1,270 0 0 6,096.00 40,204 11 8 192,982.00

Total Revenue collected in 1869

39,117 13 1 187,764.74

Total increase in 1870, as compared with 1869 -

£1,086 18 7 = $5,217.26

Amount of Imperial Revenue collected in 1870:-

Remittances to London £ S. d. $ d. 24,385 19 8 = 123,148.72 Contributions to agencies 1,270 0 0 £25,655 19 8 = 123,148.72

Amount of Imperial Revenue collected in 1869 -

25,882 8 61/2 124,235.66

Decrease in 1870 as compared with 1869

£226 8 101/2 $1,086.94

Amount of Colonial Revenue collected in 1870

Increase in 1870 as compared with 1869

69,833.28 1869 63,529.08 $6,304.20

The Colonial Expenditure in 1870, including $3,135.45 paid for the conveyance of ship mails, amounts to

Less contributed by Imperial Post Office in aid of maintenance of agencies at the ports

40,363.46 6,096.00

Expenditure borne by the Colony in 1870 -

Ditto

Increase in 1870, as compared with 1869

22. It will thus be observed that the excess of the Colony's postal revenue over its ordinary expenditure for Post Office purposes during the past year amounted to $35,565.82.

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The Colony's share of the postage on mails received from the United Kingdom in 1870 was

ditto in 1869 was

Increase in 1870

1,394 11 61/4 1,375 19 7 34,267.46 1869 33,872.70 $394.76

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The number of ship mails sent in 1870 was

1869

Decrease in 1870

£18 11 11 1,816 1,839 23