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# REPORTS EXHIBITING THE PRESENT STATE

# COMPARATIVE STATEMENT of the REVENUE and EXPENDITURE

## REVENUE.

1809.

1870.

Increase.

Decrease.

Land Revenue - Rents, exclusive of Lands Licences :- $ $ Spirit Retailers 50,038.47 31,590.65 18,447.82 Pawnbrokers 4,200.00 4,200.00 Auctioneers 176.95 176.95 Tenements for Emigrants Emigration Brokers 2,400.00 2,400.00 Billiard Tables and Bowling Alloys 400.00 400.00 Opium Monopoly Boarding Houses 75.00 70.00 5.00 Marriage 70.00 70.00 Chinese Undertakers 075.00 075.00 Money Changers Marino Store Dealers 2,625.00 2,625.00 192,811.08 130,619.72 Spirit Distillers 2,291.96 2,291.96 Taxes :- Stamps 50,810.19 Fire Brigade Rates 771.72 30,872.22 30,100.50 Postage 718.43 Fines of Courts 7,700.00 8,050.00 350.00 Forfeitures of Courts 850.00 850.00 3,900.00 3,900.00 Police, Lighting, Water, and 300.00 250.55 49.45 73.60 73.60 1,000.00 800.00 200.00 1,275.00 1,200.00 75.00 108,660.00 113,080.00 4,420.00 113,080.00 75.00 75.00 1,120.00 1,120.00 352.00 352.00 48.00 70.00 22.00 70.00 590.00 520.00 5.00 5.00 85.00 85.00 Fees of Courts 2,965.00 100.00 2,865.00 100.00 100.00 340.00 340.00 100.00 100.00 95,812.51 107,848.21 12,035.70 178,717.09 185,188.57 6,471.48 10,639.70 9,654.82 1,133.14 Fees of Office :- On Cemetery Burials 4,045.28 4,045.28 202.21 8,325.41 8,123.20 Licences for Junks, &c. 938.00 892.75 45.25 8,238.00 6,909.00 1,329.00 Passes 7,835.75 8,810.25 974.50 Registry of Boats 3,075.81 3,741.45 665.64 074.50 65.61 8.89 Registry of Cargo Boats and Crews 1,357.41 1,376.69 19.28 Registry of Hawkers 1,801.25 1,690.25 111.00 Cargo Boats Certificates 195.00 225.00 30.00 Registration of Householders 2,238.50 1,643.25 595.25 Registration of Servants, &c. 298.00 209.75 88.25 Official Signatures 88.00 235.00 147.00 Registration of Deeds 1,633.50 1,068.50 565.00 Shipping Seamen 7,113.00 6,802.00 311.00 Examination of Masters and Mates 610.00 430.00 180.00 Colonial Registers 50.00 30.00 20.00 Merchant Shipping Act 613.00 531.00 82.00 Registry of Chairs, Carriages, &c. 1,419.00 1,641.00 222.00 Registration of Companies 108.00 1,738.50 1,630.50 Medical Fees on Examination of Emigrants Sale of Government Property 4,707.25 3,783.00 924.25 Mint 521.75 521.75 Reimbursements 60,102.71 60,102.71 Miscellaneous Receipts 642.11 120.36 521.75 Interest 40,000.00 20,102.71 19,897.29 87,579.43 68,999.73 13,065.00 12,144.69 18,579.70 18,579.70 1,820.40 1,820.40 8,958.08 8,958.08 20,539.42 17,581.34 2,958.08 Special Receipts, under Ordinance No. 10 of 1867 10,800.10 10,096.20 703.90 $923,653.01 $914,976.37 Deduct Increase $54,020.73 $45,353.09 15,353.00 109.90 $45,353.09 Net Decrease $8,670.01

Colonial Treasury, Victoria, Hong Kong,

29th March, 1871.

A. F. ALVES, Accountant,

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