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ACCOUNT of EXPENDITURE incurred by GREAT BRITAIN

for the MILITARY PROTECTION and in aid of the CIVIL ESTABLISHMENT.

COMMISSARIAT.

Cost of Provisions, Fuel and Light, &c., &c., from 1st January, to 31st December, 1878,...

AMOUNT IN POUNDS STERLINO.

£ 8. d.

17,200 0 0

C. R. SHERVINTON, A.C.G., District Commissary-General.

Hongkong, 14th January, 1870.

MILITARY EXPENDITURE FOR THE YEAR 1878.

(FROM RECORDS OF ARMY PAY Department).

SERVICE.

Pay and Allowances of Officers and Men,......................

Provisions, Fuel, Light and Transport,..

Purchase and Repair of Stores,

Engineer Services,......

Engineer Defences (all Services), ............................

Miscellaneous,

Hongkong, January, 1879.

AMOUNT IN POUNDS STERLING.

£

d.

60,998 0 0

16,728 0 0

761- 0

0

5,157 0 0

4,856 0 0

329 0 0

Total,.............

.£ 78,760 0 0

J. MUSKETT, Captain,

ORDNANCE.

MILITARY WORKS, STORES, BARRACKS, &C.

SPECIFY EACH SEPARATE HEAD OF Expenditure.

Temporary Defences,

District Paymaster and Treasurer.

AMOUNT IN POUNDS STERLING,

£ 8. d.

5,442 0 0

Barrack Buildings,

4,247 0 0

Fortifications, and Ordnance Store Buildings,........

'870 0 0

Hongkong, 17th December, 1878.

TOTAL EXPENDITURE

INCURRED BY GREAT BRITAIN

IN

POUNDS STERLING.

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£

d.

10,059 0 0

10,059 0 0

W. J. STUART, Col., Commanding R. É.