1913 — Page 76

Debts.

To whom due,

Rate of Interest.

£

8.

d.

200,000 0 0

200,000 0 0

1,799 15 1

1,143,933 1 4

When incurred and for what cause.

PUBLIC DEBT.

State Provision for Pay- ment of Interest or Sinking Fund, and refer to Enact- ments by which it is made.

Amount of Original Debt.

Amount repaid.

Remarks.

4 per centum.

1887. Public Works,

Ordinances No. 6 of 1886 and No. 1 of 1893.

£ 8.

d.

200,000 0 0

d.

60,000 0. 0

----

31

1893. Public Works.

Ordinances Nos. 1 and

200,000 0 0

"

2 of 1893.

34

Do.

1,799 15 1

A

31

"

1894. Stock created to defray expenses of con- version of the balance of the 1887 loan.

1906. Loan to Chinese Provincial Government and for Railway Construction,

Ordinances Nos. 1 of 1893 1,143,933 and 11 of 1905.

1 4

Joint sinking fund: ten shillings per centum on the total nominal amount of the inscribed stock being appropriated annually from general revenues and assets. Interest appro- priated half-yearly from the same source.

In 1894 the balance of the 1887 loan was converted into 3% inscribed stock.

The total amount of debt outstanding at the close of 1913 was £1,485,732. 16s. 5d. The sinking fund on the date amounted £164,188. 9%. 5d.

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