89
Net receipts, Currency Note Issue :-
Gross receipts
Less working expenses
Revenue assessable to military
contribution
Military contribution at Twenty
per cent.
Amount given in Council Paper
No 49 of 1905
114,297 61
22,385.87
91,911.74
10.438,463.63
2,087,969.72
2,084,656.20
Currency Note Issue :—
Gross receipts
Less working expenses
Less amount paid out of revenue under Section 10 (3) of Ordi- nance IV. of 1899, now written uff as irrecoverable
C.
$ c.
C.
108,230.80
7.150.04
747,580.83
754,731.77
Net profits
Nil.
Penang Pier -
Gross receipts
10,817.15
Less working expenses
$3,040.52
Less four per cent capital cost
($1,350,740.26*)
6,579.49
54,029.61
60,609.10
Net profits
Nil.
Christmas Island :—
Gross receipts
Less working expenses
J. O. ANTRONISZ, Acting Treasurer,
Straits Settlements.
PUBLIC RECORD OFFICE
LICO. 882
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Singapore,
24th October, 1905
49,619.55
No 48 of 1906. STRAITS SETTLEMENTS.
Paper to be laid before the Legislative Council by Command of His Excellency the Governor
STATEMENT of Actual Revenue of the Colony for the year 1905 on which the Defence Contribution is payable.
Less audit of accounts
Net profits
Revenue assessable to Defence
contribution.
19,003.50 214.47
19,217.97
30,401.58
9,315,762:82
C.
C.
C.
Defence contribution at twenty
per cent.
11,657,423.75
Paid in 1905
1,863,152.56 1,911,585.00
Actual revenue for 1905
Deduct
Land sales
Over paid
48,432.44
1,452,606.05
Railway receipts
Penang Telephone Exchange
Currency Note Issue
201,776.48
21,226.94
108,230.80
Penang Pier
10,817.15
Christmas Island revenue
49,619.55
Widows' and Orphans' Pension
Fund contributions, fines, &c. Refunds of revenue
532,427.91
2,988.74
2,379,693.62
9,277,730.13
22532
Amount of estimated over-pay- ment now being deducted monthly from contribution for 1906 (see Estimates for 1906. Appendix A)
Balance payable
60,138.00
$11,703.56
Add net receipts on productive under-
takings.
Railway:
Gross receipts
201.776.48
Less working expenses
134,312.30
Less four per cent. capital cost
($1,933,510.36)
77.340.41
211,652.71
Net profits
Nil.
Penang Telephone Exchange
Gross receipts
21,226.94
Less working expenses
9,134.47
Less four per cent. capital cost
($111,533.97.)
4,461.36
13,595.83
Net profits
7,691.11
SIR,
No. 112.
STRAITS SETTLEMENTS.
WAR OFFICE to COLONIAL OFFICE. (Received 24 June, 1907.)
War Office, London, S. W., 24th June, 1907.
I AM commanded by the Army Council to acknowledge the receipt of your letter, 19775, of 11th instant, with further reference to the request of the Governor of the Straits Settlements for information as to certain items of military expenditure specified in a statement included in the Annual Blue Book of the Colony.
The Governor asks to be informed as to "expenditure not ascertainable locally," in the calendar years 1905 and 1906, under the headings -Transport of Troops from England, Capitation Rate for Indian Native Infantry, and Freight on Stores received from England. Your letter of 11th instant suggests that the information should be given for the last two financial years.
The Army Council are anxious to assist Sir J. Anderson in his purpose of exhibiting to the public of the Straits Settlements the annual military expenditure
$600,000 of this sum was borrowed from the Federated Malay States at 4 per cent. interest. ↑ No. 110.
Reference :-
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