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Hong Kong Annual Administration Reports, 1841-1941

COLONIAL ESTIMATES-HONGKONG.

EXPENDITURE DETAILED,

ROADS, STREETS, AND BRIDGES.

£ £ d. Sewerage in Hongkong, 4,100.13. 4 Improvements at British Kowloon, 208. 6. 8 $ Roads and Streets Contingencies, 20,000.00 Street Improvements, Taipingshan, 1,000.00 Repairs to Roads out of Victoria, 2,812.10. 0 Do. to Bridges, 13,500.00 Watering Streets, 208. 6. 8 1,000.00 Maintenance of Piers, 1,250. 0. 0 Bowrington Bridge, 0,000.00 Widening Victoria Peak Road 208. 6. 8 1,000.00 150. 0. 0 Miscellaneous Services, 720.00 208. 6. 8 1,000.00 208. 6. 8 1,000.00 410.13. 4 2,000.00 416.13. 4 2,000.00 TOTAL, £ 10,954. 3. 4 $40,220.00

LIGHTHOUSES.

Maintenance, &c., of Buildings, and Apparatus, £ s. d. £208. 6. 8 $1,000.00

MISCELLANEOUS SERVICES.

£ c. d. Lighting Street Lamps, 4,583. 6. 8 22,000.00 Expenses of the Clock Tower, 208. 6. 8 1,000.00 Commission to Crown Agents, 250. 0. 0 1,200.00 Telegraph Service, 520.16. 8 2,500.00 Allowance to the City Hall for Salary of Librarian and Curator of the 250.0.0 1,200.00 Grant to the Native District Watchmen, 410.13. 4 2,000.00 Rent of Marine Lot No. 66, (Crosby's Store), 201.13. 4 1,400.00 Grant to St. John's Cathedral for the use of the Troops, 104. 3. 4 600.00 Other Miscellaneous Services, 1,041.13. 4 TOTAL 7,006.13. 4 5,000.00 $30,800.00

MILITARY CONTRIBUTION.

Contribution to Imperial Government in aid of Military Expenditure,

(£20,000 at the current exchange of the day say 3/10),

£ 4. d. C. £21,739. 3. 4 $104,348.00

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