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ACCOUNT of EXPENDITURE incurred by GREAT BRITAIN for the MILITARY

PROTECTION, and in aid of the CIVIL ESTABLISHMENT,

DETAIL OF MILITARY EXPENDITURE AT HONGKONG, FROM 1ST JANUARY TO

31ST DECEMBER, 1899.

( From records in the Army Pay Office.)

HEADS OF SERVICE.

AMOUNT.

Pay of Officers and Men...................

£ 99,359

Transport.

7,373

Provisions, Chair, Fuel and Light, Rents, Water Supply, Lodging and Colonial Allowances,

Clothing, Advertisements, and Miscellaneous Barrack Services,

56,622

Purchase and Repair of Warlike Stores,

7,95-1

Engineer Salaries, and Contingencies. Fortifications and Barrack Buildings,

13,692

Miscellaneous, Imperial Defence Loan, Repayments and non-effective Servicos,

17,382

Colonial Defences Contribution, (paid by Colony),

Total,.....

202,332

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