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ABSTRACT
OF THE
NET REVENUE AND EXPENDITURE
HONGKONG,
FOR THE YEAR
1871.
Insert under general lends the Receipts and Disbursements, so as to exhibit distinctly and separately the Sources from which the Receipts have been derived; on the one hand, whether from the Resources of the Colony, from Parliamentary Grunts, or from 11or Majesty's Treasury; and, on the other, the Total Expense incurred by cach Department of the Government; distinguishing the Ordinary Established Chargo of thio several Offices from their Contingent and Accidental Expenses.
Such observations as may be sufficient to explain the causes, and point to the remedy of any deficiency in the Revenue, or excess of the Expenditure, must form the subject of a Special Report to accompany the Blun Book when transmitted to the Secretary of State.