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PUBLIC DEBT.

Rate of

Debts.

luterest.

When incurred and for what cause.

State Provision for Payment of Interest or Sinking Fund, and refer to Enactments by which it is made.

Amount of Original Debt.

Amount repaid.

Remarks.

£

s. d.

£

d.

£

a. d.

200,000 0 0 1 per cen- 1887. Public Works.

tum.

Ordinances Nos. 6 of 1886 and 1 of 1893.

200,000 0 0 60,000 0, 01

200,000 0 0 31

12

1893. Public Works. Ordinances Nos.

1 and 2 of 1893.

200,000 0 0

1,799 15 1 31

Do.

1,799 13 1

J

1,148,933 1 4 34

37

$4,927,000

[

| 1894. Stock created to defray expenses of conversion of the bulance of the 1887 Toun.

1906. Loan to

Ordinances Nos. 1,143,933 1 4

-

Chinese Provincial 1 of 1893 and Il Government and for of 1905.

Railway Construc- Joint sinking

tion.

fund: ten abil- lings per centum on the total no- minal amount of the inscribed stock heing appropriated half-yearly from general revenues and assets. Inter- est appropriated half-yearly from the same source.

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1927. Works.

Public

Ordinance No. 14 of 1927.

$1,927,000

In 1894 the balance of the 1887 loan was converted into 34 % inscribed stock,

The total

amount

of

sterling debt -outstanding at the close of

1931

Was

£1,185,732.

[168, 5d.

The sinking fund of the

same

Jate

amounted to

£761,447.

[143. 6d.

Sinking Fund ou 31st Dec- ember 1931 amounted to £98,036.

[121.3d.