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MILITARY QUARTERS AND BUILDINGS.

VICTORIA.

Detached Officers Quarters.-Head Quarter House.

Barracks.-Murray, North, Victoria, Wellington, McGregor Buildings, and the Sanitarium, (no Officers Quarters

at North, Victoria). Four blocks in Queen's Road.

Non-Commissioned Officers Quarters.-Spring Gardens. Surveyor Royal Engineer, Queen's Road. Hospital.-Wellington Barracks

Offices in Commissariat Buildings.-Staff, Royal Engineer, Commissariat, and Pay Her Majesty's Treasury. Ordnance Store Buildings.-New and Old Magazines, Laboratory, Ordnance Store Office, Arsenal,

Submarine Mining Establishment, and Stores at Spring Gardens and McGregor's Buildings.

Royal Engineer Stores.-Queen's Road Buildings.

Royal Engineer Workshop.- Queen's Road, opposite Commissariat Buildings.

Stanley.-Barracks for Troops and Quarters for Officers (uninhabitable on account of unhealthy situation). Kowloon.-Barracks for Troops and Quarters for Officers.

In Harbour.-Powder Magazine, and Foreman's Quarters on Kellet's Island and H. M. S. Mecanee, Guard-

Room and District Gunners' Quarters on Stone Cutters' Island.

Rate of

Quarter for which due.

Åmount.

Dnic of Payment

Ex- change at which Paid.

COLONIAL CONTRIBUTION IN AID OF MILITARY EXPENDITURE AT HONGKONG,

PAID INTO THE TREASURY CHEST,

from 1st January, to 31st December, 1888.

Rate of Exchange at which brought to Credit.

A mount.

REMARKS.

Amount.

£

s. d.

Dec., 1887,...] 5,000, 0. 0

1889. Jau.,

6.

3.12

$ C. 31,893.68

34

March, 1888,...) 5,000. 0. 0

April. 5.

3.0

33,218.00

3/3

5,397.18. 6

June, 1888,... 5,000, 0. 0 July, 6,

Sept. 1888,...| 3,000, 0, 0 Oct..

301 33,103.46

33

5,379. 6. 3

3/1

32.323.24

32

5,117.16.11

£

s. d. 5,315.12. 3

Under War Office Author. ity, dated 7th Jane, 1870, the Military Contribution is paid in at the rate of exchange current for Bills on London at night, 00 the day when the pay ment is made.

Total....£20,000, 0, 0

£21,210.13.11