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Debts.

To whom due.

Rate of Interest.

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,

£

S. d.

200,000 0 0

4 per centum.

1987.

Public Works.

Ordinances No. 6 of 1886 and No. 1 of 1898.

£ 5. d.

200,000 0 0

£ 5. d.

60,000 0. 0

( 22 )

200,000 0 0

33

1893. Public Works.

**

1,799 là

I

31

1,143,933 1 4

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.

2 of 1893.

Ordinancos Nos. 1 and

200,000 0 0

Do.

1,799 15

Ordinances Nos. 1 of 1893 1,143,933 1 4 and 11 of 1905.

Joint sinking fund: ten shillings per centum on the total nominal amount of the inscribed stock being appropriated suunally 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 34 % inscribed stock.

The total amount of debt outstanding at the close of 1914 was £1,485,732, 168, 5d.

The sinking fund on the same date amounted £186,294. 78. Od.

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