1915 — Page 76

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.

£

5. d.

200,000 0 0

4 per centum,

1887. Public Works.

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

£ s. d.

200,000 0 0

£ 器 d.

60,000 0. 0

200,000 0 0

1

1,799 15 I

34

1,143,933 1 4

3

1893.

Public Works.

"

Ordinances Nos. 1 und 2 of 1893.

200,000 0 0

Do.

1,799 15

1

+

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

Ordinances Nos. 1 of 1893 | 1,143,933 1

1906. Loan to Chinese Provincial Government and | and 11 of 1905. for Railway Construction,

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

+

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

The total amount of debt outstanding at the close of 1915 was £1,485,732. 16s, 5d.

The sinking fund on the same date amounted

£190,817. 1s. 7d.

to

( 88 0 )