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Return showing Expenditure for the Year 1898, &c., of the Colonies, &c., to which it is proposed to advance Loans under the Colonial Loans Bill, 1899.

£

Expenditure.

Year.

Gold Coast

390,645 (1)

Lagon

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203,802 (2)

1898

Niger Coast Protectorate

146,500

1898-9

Sierra Leone

121,112

1898

Jamaica

631,755

1898

Trinidad

610,952 (*)

1898

Barbados

177,340 ()

1898

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St. Vincent

27,674 (*)

1898

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Mauritius

Rs. 8,131,465

1898

Seychelles

Malay States

Cyprus

Rs. 257,497

1897

$11,110,042 (4)

1898

£225,774 (7)

1898-9

REMARKS.

(1) Inclusive of £120,612 special expenditure incurred in con- nection with the Northern Terri- tories, against which £45,000 was received within the year from the Parliamentary Grants for that service, apart from £70,000 provided Un Supplementary Estimates

1898-9.

the

(2) Inclusive of £11,809 expended on Telegraphs, against which there was 8 Parliamentary Grant of £10,000.

Inclusive of £67,748 extra- ordinary, expenditure on Rail-

ways, Public Works, Roads, and Bridges.

(*) This does not include the

whole

incurred expenditure through the agency of the Colonial Government in coll- nection

with the relief of

distress caused by the hurricane:

of September, 1898.

(Exclusive of

expenditure

ineurred in connection with the Parliamentary Grants in Aid of Hurricane Relief and Roads and Laud Settlement.

(*) Including $3,159,954 expended on construction of new railways.

(7) Inclusive of £92,799, Tribute payable to the Porte under the Convention of 1878 and sub- sequent arrangements.

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