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# REPORTS EXHIBITING THE PRESENT STATE

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REVENUE and EXPENDITURE of the COLONY of Hong Kong during the Year ended

31st December, 1870.

Amount

EXPENDITURE.

Amount.

Revenue.

Land Revenue $ C. 130,519 72 Rents, exclusive of Lands. 50,810 10 Civil Departments :- Governor 25,812 93 Licences:- Colonial Secretary 25,378 41 Spirit Retailers 30,872 22 Colonial Treasurer 11,787 98 Pawnbrokers 8,050 00 Auditor-General 19,090 39 Auctioneers 3,900 00 Clerk of Councils 960 00 Tenements for Emigrants 250 55 Surveyor-General 32,200 GS Emigration Brokers Postmaster-General 41,603 80 ing Alloys - Registrar-General 14,986 63 Opium Monopoly 113,080 00 Harbour Master 37,400 05 Boarding Houses 1,000 00 Collector of Stamp Revenue 3,814 90 Billiard Tables and Bowl- 1,200 00 Marriage- Judicial Departments - Chinose Undertakers 40,000 56 Money Changers - 70 00 Registrar of Companies' Department 102 · 00 Marine Store Dealers 70 00 Ecclesiastical Department 4,974 00 590 00 Educational Department - 13,972 68 Spirit Distillers - 100 00 Medical Department 29,315 22 Taxes:- Police, Lighting, Water, Stamps 107,848 21 Police Magistrates' Department 16,300 40 Postage and Fire Brigade Rates 185,188 Police Department 157,500 54 Fines, Forfeitures, and Fees 57 Gaol Department 40,001 31 293,036 78 of Courts:- Fines 9,651 82 Foes of Office :- * Forfeitures On Comotory Burials 892 75 Tees - 6,000 00 Licences for Junks, &c. Prusca 8,810 25 ** Registry of Bonts 3,741 45 Registry of Cargo Boats and Crows 1,376 69 Registry of Hawkers Cargo Boats' Certificates - 225 00 Registration of Householders 1,643 25 1,600 25 202 21 3,325 41 13,242 44 Fire Brigade Department Pensions, Retired Allowances, and Gratuities 18,260 95 6,251 95 Transport 970 26 Works and Buildings 5,892 75 138,993 62 Roads, Streets, and Bridges Military Contribution 20,250 83 Miscellaneous Services 37,258 01 = Land and Houses Purchased 39,314 29 93,720 76 Charitable Allowances Registration of Servants, &c. 269 75 Official Signatures 235 00 Registration of Deeds 1,068 50 Shipping Seamen and Mates Examination of Masters Colonial Registers Morchant Shipping Act - Registry of Chairs, Carriages, &c. 6,892 00 430 00 30 00 Registration of Companies 1,738 50 531 00 Medical Fees on Examination of Emigrants 1,641 60 3,783 00 Salo of Government Property 41,907 99 012 11 Mint 40,000 00 Reimbursements 68,999 73 Miscellaneous Receipts 12,144 69 Interest *26,530 42 Special Receipts, under Ordinance No. 10 of 1867 10,606 20 Total $914,976 87 Total $ 877,221 10

* The sum of $26,539.42 received for interest is inclusive of the interest payable on Special Fund Deposits, which will have to be transferred to that account.

A. F. ALVES,

Accountant,

Examined, J. GARDINER AUSTIN,

Auditor-General,

Colonial Treasury, Victoria, Hong Kong, 29th March, 1871.

CECIL C. SMITH,

Acting Colonial Treasurer,

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