PUBLIC RECORD OFFICE
Reference :-
TTILLCO. 882
9 PUBLIC RECORD OFFICE, LONDON
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ACCOUNT OF EXPENDITURE INCURRED BY GREAT BRITAIN FOR THE MILITARY PROTEC- TION, AND IN THE CIVIL ESTABLISHMENT
Military Expenditure at Hong Kong, from 1st January to 31st December.
11477
123
No. 144.
HONG KONG.
THE SECRETARY OF STATE to THE GOVERNOR.
Downing Street, 23rd October, 1908. I HAVE the honour to acknowledge the receipt of your despatches, No. 293, of the 29th of November,* and No. 141, of the 22nd of May,† asking for statistics of the cost of military defence in certain Colonies and Protectorates.
2. I enclose a copy of a letter to the War Office and a copy of the replys giving particulars of the military contributions and the cost of the garrisons of Ceylon, Mauritius, the Straits Settlements, and Hong Kong (so far as possible) during the last ten years.
3. I regret that I am not at present in a position to comply with your request for returns of the military expenditure of those Governments which provide their own defence.
Year.
1864
1865
1886
1887
1968
1869
155,499 16
1870
75,557 11
Amount.
s. d. £ 124,584 0 0 0 81,282 13 79,149 6 0 65,769 0 0 159,822 0 0 4 7
(No. 243.)
SIR,
1871
87,316 13
B
1872
80,921 12 114
1873
77,638 0 6
1874
74,499 4
7
1875
79,672 0
4
1876
78,623 12
0
1877
68,227 0 0
1878
1879
1880
1881
78,769 0
0
81,998 0 0 74,358 0 0 81,647
0 0
46474
1882
1883
88,210 0 0 87,805 0 0
1884
95,641 0.
0
1885
137,645 0
0
1886
157,592 0
0
1887
131,918
0
0
1888
112,018 0 0
1889
109,830 0 0
1890
1891
1892
1893
1894
1895
126,566 0 0 122,214 0
152,356 0 0 155,575 0
0
149,983 0 159,047 0 0
0
0
→ BOWER.
2082
1896
152,084 0
0
1897
162,588 0
0
1898
163,838 0
0
1899
202,332 0
0
1900
247,378 0
0.
(Secret.)
1901
215,691 0
0
1902
1903
1904
1905
1906
1907
266,033 19
7 259,387 7 268,030 5 9 6 264,389 17 282,023 17 10 244,530 13 10
8
MY LORD,
SECRETARY,
War Office, London, S. W.,
FORWARDED, as these figures are not available locally.
Hong Kong.
28th July, 1908.
R. G. BROADWOOD, Major-General, Commanding the Troops, South China Command.
I have, &c.,
ELGIN.
No. 145.
MAURITIUS.
THE ACTING GOVERNOR to THE SECRETARY OF STATE.
(Received 1.52 p.m., 18 December, 1908.)
TELEGRAM.
Following resolution, moved by Leclézio, unanimously adopted by Unofficial Members of Legislative Council :—
"That, as measure relief to the Colony in its present depressed financial condition, Colony be exempted for a period of three years from the payment of the Military Contribution."
No. 146.
MAURITIUS.
THE ACTING GOVERNOR to THE SECRETARY OF STATE. (Received January 18, 1909.)
Government House, Le Réduit, 16 December, 1908.
WITH reference to my secret despatch of the 5th December, 1908,|| I have the honour to acquaint you that the following resolution was adopted by the Unofficial Members of the Council of Government yesterday: That on the next vacancy the Governor's salary be reduced to Rs. 50,000 annually.”
**
2 The resolution was adopted unanimously by all the Unofficial Members, and I desire to bear testimony to the excellent tone of the mover of the motion, Mr. Duclos.
3. The ground taken was the financial position of the Colony, and no imputa- tion or reflection was made. Indeed, in a conversation which he had with me after the debate, Mr. Duclos explained that he was the first to recognise the generous and charitable use that Sir C. Boyle made of his salary, and that for his part he would have preferred, had it been possible, to leave the Governor's salary at the higher figure.
4. But a significant feature of the discussion now going on in the Council of Government is that Mr. Leclézio has given notice of a motion asking for the abate- ment of the military contribution for three years. As your Lordship's telegram of the 4th September has been read to the Executive Council once by Sir C. Boyle and twice by myself, Mr. Leclézio is aware that the effect of his motion is tantamount to the acceptance of a Royal Commission by him.
• No. 129.
† 22983: not-printed (a reminder),
45136: not printed. § No. 132.
Not printed bore: (No. 92 in Eastern No. 110). ¶ Not printed here: (No. 74 in Eastern No. 110).
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