Debts.
To whom due,
Rate of Interest.
£
8.
d.
200,000 0 0
200,000 0 0
1,799 15 1
1,143,933 1 4
When incurred and for what cause.
PUBLIC DEBT.
State Provision for Pay- ment of Interest or Sinking Fund, and refer to Enact- ments by which it is made.
Amount of Original Debt.
Amount repaid.
Remarks.
4 per centum.
1887. Public Works,
Ordinances No. 6 of 1886 and No. 1 of 1893.
£ 8.
d.
200,000 0 0
d.
60,000 0. 0
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31
1893. Public Works.
Ordinances Nos. 1 and
200,000 0 0
"
2 of 1893.
34
Do.
1,799 15 1
A
31
"
1894. Stock created to defray expenses of con- version of the balance of the 1887 loan.
1906. Loan to Chinese Provincial Government and for Railway Construction,
Ordinances Nos. 1 of 1893 1,143,933 and 11 of 1905.
1 4
Joint sinking fund: ten shillings per centum on the total nominal amount of the inscribed stock being appropriated annually from general revenues and assets. Interest appro- priated half-yearly from the same source.
In 1894 the balance of the 1887 loan was converted into 3% inscribed stock.
The total amount of debt outstanding at the close of 1913 was £1,485,732. 16s. 5d. The sinking fund on the date amounted £164,188. 9%. 5d.
same
to
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