(C 9)
COLONY OF HONGKONG FOR THE YEARS 1879 AND) 1880.
INCREASE.
DECREASE.
CAUSE OF INCREASE OR DECREASE.
1,404.19
850.37
381.68
3,017.89
60.19
204.20
341.00
35,143.39
2,681.88
3,269.91
116.73
607.79
1,559.00
130.53
321.71
1,619.71
1,243.75
1,145.48
5,657.03
3,756.11
·
4,720,57
207.92
169.00
1,879.72
11,175.61
13,311.50
518.25
9,620.74
4,340.99
80.00
4,399.81
Pay and Uniform of Police Sergeant, Constables and Orderlies
formerly charged to the Police.
Salary, Allowance and Rent to Cadet.
Pay and Uniform of Police Orderly for Government Offices, and
extra pay to 2nd Shroff for collecting Hospital Bills. Stationery purchased in England for 1880 not paid for until 1881.
Increase in Contingencies.
Pay and Luiform of 3 Chinese Constables for Cemeteries formerly
charged to the Police Department.
In 1879 a portion of the expenses for afforestation was charged
to Surveyor General's Department.
In previous years refund of postages was deducted from the gross
Revenue, but in 1880 is classified as expenditure.
Pay and Uniform of 6 Indian and 8 Chinese Constables formerly
paid by the Police Department.
Salaries of Engineer and Shipwright Surveyors under Ordinance 8 of 1879, and Pay and Uniform of 3 Police Constables. Increase in Salaries and Contingencies.
Increase in Salaries of 1st and 2nd Clerks.
Decrease in Salaries.
Since Mr. Gibbons' appointment, the duties of the Registrar of
Companies were amalgamated with those of the Reg of S. C. A portion of Colonial Chaplain's Salary for 1879 was not drawn.
Additional Chinese Teachers, and increase in Grant-in-aid.
More expended in 1879 for bedding, medicines, &c., used by the destruction of the Civil Hospital, by fire, December 1878. Increase to Coroner's Salary, and Pay and Uniform of 2 Poles
Constables.
Cost of Steam-launches.
Pay and Uniform of Guol Guards formerly supplied by the Police
Department.
Purchase of a new Steam Fire Engine in 1879, and expenses in
connection with the fire of December 1878.
Consequent upon the death of Mr. Mercer.
More Charitable Allowances in 1880.
Fewer passages granted to Officers in 1880.
Government Gardens and Tree Planting expenses withdrawn from
this heading in 1880.
Less expended in 1880 for storm damages.
Incidental.
Transferred from Works and Buildings' account since 1880.
Laying sub-marine telegraph ceble to Kau-lung, and expenses
connected with the Colonial Defence. Incidental.
Difference in Exchange.
67,538.01
48,391.54
46,391.54
21,146.47