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COLONY OF HONGKONG FOR THE YEARS 1884 AND 1885.
INCREASE.
1,271.20
DECREASE.
A
G.
1,484.51
39.79
4,191.63
CAUSE OF INCREASE OR DECREASE.
A portion of Private Secretary's Salary paid in 1885.
Decrease in Contingencies and Salary to Cadets.
71.63
1,177.51
Salaries, &c., of Opium Rovenue Department continued for only 4
months in 1885.
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Additional Clerk of Works, and Sanitary expenditure.
Arrears for Postal Convention paid in 1884.
13,506.05
1,542.44
5,875.94
Purchase of 2 Steam Launches in 1884.
Re-arrangement of Office Staff.
194.91
946.65
1.846.26
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2,945.15
Increase in Contingencies.
Do.
do.
Cost of New Dies and Plates.
Decrease Afforestation.
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1,621.74
Purchase of Law Books in 1884.
3.75
2,046.09
5,370.62
917.75
23,794.02
990.77
1,104.31
2,320.47
927.02
2,327.39
64,100.54
12,537.79
1,596.55
2,598.90
6,302.86
134,385.62
161,940.29
136,088.29
136,088.29
25,852.00
More Grants-in-Aid to Public Schools paid in 1985, and Govern-
ment Scholarship.
Increase in Medicines, Provisions, &c. during Cholera alarmı.
Increase in Provisional Salary.
Decrease chiefly in the costs of Arms, Ammunition and Accou-
trements.
Full Salary drawn by tho Superintendent in 1885.
Less paid in 1885 for Stores from England.
Pension to A. Leirin, W. McLellan, and increase in Peusion paid.
to Police.
Incidental.
Less Passages granted to Officers in 1885.
Expenses for Now Central School and Drain and Sea Wall at Lapsapwan are now under Extraordinary Public Works. Expenses for Typhoon Repairs are now charged under Extrnor-
dinary Public Works."
Loss in Exchange.
Purchase of a Strip of Land near Causeway Bay and Resumption
of a Portion of Inland Lots 714 and 715 in 1884. Difference in Exchange.
More expended in 1885 for Sanitary Works and Military Defence.