COLONIAL ESTIMATES--HONGKONG.
REVENUE DETAILED.
ESTIMATED FOR 1855.
REVENCE OF 1853.
REFE- RENCE TO REMARKS
COLONIAL ESTIMATES-HONGKONG,
REVENUE DETAILED.
Brought forward,...
SALE OF GOVERNMENT PROPERTY:
Condemned Stores, &c.....
REIMBURSEMENTS IN AID OF EXPENSES INCURRED
BY GOVERNMENT:
Sick Stoppages from Police force,
75
Subsistence Money of Foreign Seamen
25
6
8 B.
and others in Victoria Gaol,
Sale of Printed Forms,
10
MISCELLANEOUS RECEIPTS:
Over-payments, &c., Recovered,
SPECIAL RECEIPTS:
£
S.
d.
£
S.
d.
LAND REVENUE : -
£
$.
d.
Lease Lands,
11,200
JJ
"
Lands not Leased,...
Fees on grant of Leases,...
Premium by Purchases,
300
A
10
J
"J
40
""
11,550
11,883 14
2
A.
RENTS, EXCLUSIVE OF LANDS:
Markets,
Buildings,
2,125
215
"
2,340
2,128
co
"
LICENSES:
Spirit Retailers,...
2,000
JJ
23
Pawnbrokers....
583
6
co
Auctioneers,
156
LO
5
0
Salt Weighing,
200
}}
Stone Quarriers,
200
*
JI
Billiard Tables,
41
13
4
Opium Retailers,
1,718
6
8
Boarding-house Licenses,
100
00
8
4
5,000
4,526 19 11 C.
TAXES:
Police Assessment,
POSTAGES:
(Received by the Post Master General in England,)
FINES, FORFEITURES, AND FEES OF COURTS:
Fines, ...
...
Forfeitures,
Fees,
FEES OF OFFICES:
300
J
77
25
JJ
**
350
£
S.
.d
75
35
A
On Marriages and Burials,
Registry of Boats,
£475...
625
"
Hawkers, 150
Official Signatures,
Registration of Deeds, Shipping Seamen,...
Carried forward,
75
"
J
75
Ꮀ
650
3,000
2,704 19 0
D.
"J
675
1,601
5 1
E.
1,500,
1,659
O
£
24,065
24,504
5
31/
"
Superannuation Contributions of European Police Force,...
163
5
ESTIMATED FOR 1855.
REVENUE OF 1853.
RIFE- RENCE TO REMARKS.
£
S.
d.
£
$.
d.
24,065
""
J
24,504
5 31
1
0 10
110
150 12
25
Total...
24,200
REMARKS.
JJ
ca
3
9
=
-lea
G.
G.
G.
40 18 10
G.
24,700
6 31
A. LAND REVENUE.-The decrease on the Estimate for 1855 as compared with the Receipts for 1853 arises from arrears of former
years collected in 1853. B. RENTS EXCLUSIVE OF LANDS --Ordinance No. 2 of 1854, will, when in operation, cause an increase of Rents from Markets.
The estimated decrease of Rent from Buildings is £162.10.0.--No doubt premises producing £100 annually will be sold before the commencement of the year 1855, the Rent for the ground on which they stand will produce nearly if not 100 per Cent more per annum, than is now derived from the dilapidated Buildings thercon, the repairs of which would cost Government more than the Reat for one and more years-If sold they may also cause Land near it to come into demand, being almost the only Land available which possesses Sea frontage. C. LICENSES.The estimated increase is £473 08. 03d.
viz £381. 49. 74d. on Spirit Licenses, on account of the increased number of Chinese applicants for Licenses, in consequence of Ordinance No. 4 of 1853, by which the Licenses were made payable monthly in advance instead of yearly.
,, 145.16s. 8d. on two Pawnbrokers' Licenses.
220. 8s. 4d. on Opium Licenses on account of increased demand for same.
£747. 9s. 7 d.
less :-
,,274.98. 7el.
£473 08. 04d.
estimated decrease of £7 16s. 3d. on Auctioneer's Licenses, being one quarter's
£ 7.168. 3d. | amount received in 1853 above the usual number, and
266. 138. 4d. on Stone and
Salt Licenses which, being sold for one year, will, so long as the disturbances on the River exist, produce less than in former years, since they depend chiefly if not almost entirely on the Export up the River.
D. TAXES: Police Assessment."The estimated increase will be £295 0s. 114d. warranted by the increased number of Houses, [chiefly on ground held for some time but not built on till lately.] and by the higher Reats now obtained by the Householders.
E. FINES, FORFEITURES, AND FEES OF COURTS-The total estimated decrease under this head as compared with the Receipt in 1853
is
£926 58. 1d. viz C281 58. 10 d. on Fines, the Receipts
£281 58. 101d. under this head having been greater in 1853 than during the previous 4 years, [average £368]
and altogether of a very uncertain nature. The sum of £300 has been estimated as the most probable amount for 1855.
5 63. 114. decrease under Forfeitures on account of the uncertainty of that source of Revenue.
,,639 12s. 3d. is the estimated decrease on Fees, levied in the Courts of Justice. In 1853 they produced £989 12s. 3d. whereas the average of the three previous years is only £557. and it being the 58. 1d. intention of the Colonial Government to reduce before the commencement of the next year
£926
the scale of Fees now levied in the Courts, the sum of £350 has been set down in the Estimate as likely to be received in 1855.
F. FEES OF OFFICES. The estimated decrease is £159 08. 4 d. on account of the uncertainty of the sources from whence derived. The
differences under the other heads are accidental.
G. The differences are accidental.
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