CO129-051 - Sir Bowring - 1855 [7-9] — Page 163

LAND REVENUE:--

Lease Landa,

Lands not Leased,

Fees on grant of Leases,

Premium by Purchases,

Deposit

do.,

RENTS, EXCLUSIVE OF LANDS:-

Markets,...

Buildings,

LICENSES:-

Spirit Retailers,

Pawnbrokers....

Auctioneers,

Salt Weighing,

Stone Quarriers,

COLONIAL ESTIMATES-HONGKONG.

REVENUE DETAILED.

COLONIAL ESTIMATES--HONGKONG.

5

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15,850

すま 15

ESTIMATED FOR 1856.

REVENUE OF 1854.

REFER- ENCE TO REMARKS.

£

8. d.

£

d.

£

8.

d.

14,000

250 17

27

50

22 >>

1,500

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50

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REVENUE DETAILED.

ESTIMATED FOR 1856.

REVENCE OF 1854.

REFER- ENCE TO

Brought forward,

REMARES.

£

8. a.

£

3. d.

31,660

*

26,509 13

2/12

10,266 10 24

1.

SALE OF GOVERNMENT PROPERTY :-

281 1 2

Condemned Stores, &c.,

241

13

4

49 7 6

REIMBURSEMENTS IN AID OF EXPENSES INCURRED

1,179 7 6

3.

BY GOVERNMENT:-

£

34 d.

49 4 4

Sick stoppages from Police Force,

100

105

6 1

>>

31

Subsistence Money of Foreign Seamen and other

125

119

""

"

3 102

2,500

"

1,909 11

8

4.

in Victoria Gaol, .

225

"35

"

2,725

33

363 19

2

5.

Convict Labours and other items,

10

75

23

35

9

91

Sale of Printed Forms,

5

305

39

33

3

7

11

2,100

>>

27

656 5 0

656 5 0

156 5

0

156 5

0

2,158 11 9

MISCELLANEOUS RECEIPTS :—

Over-Payments, &c., Recovered,

5

9

SPECIAL RECEIPTS,

300

>>

427 1

8

6.

Billiard Tables,

41 13 4

41 13

4

Opium Retailers, ...

2,200

1,856 14

1

Boarding-house Licenses,

105 16 8

5,560

""

104 11

8

TAXES:-

Police Assessment,

POSTAGES:--

(Received by the Post Master General in England,)

FINES, FORFEITURES, AND FEES OF COURTS:—

Fines,

Forfeitures,

Fees,

FEES OF OFFICES:-

4,000

33

3,327 0

9

7.

500

689 21

40

49 13

460

1,000

905 1 2

55

On Marriages and Burials,

100

120 13

co

6

"

25

Registry of Boats,

800

517 2 0

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35

Do.

Hawkers,

150

185 12 3

:

35

33

Official Signatures,

Registration of Deeds,

Shipping Seamen,

175 15 25

170

100 ""

1,000

111 13

4

55

924 3 4

9 7 6

Sailing Letters and Passes,

On Surveys

100

23

On Colonial, Registers

100

2,525

Carried forward,...

£

31,660

23

26,509 13 2

Superannuation Contributions of European Police Force, &c.,

Total,

REMARKS.

35

37

0

"

21

£

32,000

"

27,045

3

51

The Estimated Revenue for 1856 exceeds the Revenue received in 1854, by £4,954.16.6. The present state and the prospects of the Revenue for the current and succeeding year are highly satisfactory. By the influx of population, Europeans, Americans, and Natives, and the general diffusion of wealth throughout the community, consequent on the extended Coasting and other Trade, the Revenue of 1854 was raised £4,045.3.5) over the amount estimated for that year. The Receipts for the current year 1855, estimated at £24,200, will exceed that amount by about £12,000.

1. The LAND REVENUE will be considerably increased. On the 24th December, 1854, the RENT ROLL shewed the Annual Rents on LEASE LANDS to be £1,250.6.1}; before the expiration of the present year it will no doubt reach £14,000. Sales have already been effected producing £1,780.3.3 Annual Rent, viz:-

On 1st February,...

£504 7 7 16th and 17th March,...... 270 14 2

14th and 15th May,

472 2 0

28th and 29th May,.. 9th July,...

447 19 0

85 0 6

A few of the Marine Lots at West Point will, if sold, bring the Annual Rent to the sum estimated.

2. The amount estimated for LANDS NOT LEASED is less by £31.1.2 than the amount received in 1854. This sum is collected from the Villages, where fishing and trading Boats constitute their principal source of income; but in consequence of the insecurity from pirates, that trade is seriously impeded, and the Villages accordingly comparatively deserted, instead of, as they should be, being flourishing places of native trade and industry.

3. The amounts estimated under FEES OF LEASES, PREMIUM and DEPOSITS, are conjectural, but under the circumstances must be considered

very moderate.

4. Three MARKETS, all in the Western part of the town, produce now £2,305.10 per annum, viz :--

The Central Market at $600 per month,...

..£1,500 → per annum. The Western, leased to Mr Duddell at £53.2.6 per month, 637 10 "J The Hwang-yuen (Tam Achoey's ), at £14 per month,.... 168 0

£2,305 10

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As the population at the Eastern part of the town increases, it cannot be otherwise than that a Market will be established in that locality, and consequently the amount of £200 will be easily obtained, which will bring the income as estimated to £2,500. At the East Point, a Market exists now without the License prescribed by Ordinance. At the expiration of the present Leases, Government intends to alter the system hitherto followed in respect to Markets.

5. RENTS from BUILDINGS are, £150 from the Post Office, and £75 from the Bungalow on the Hospital Hill. When first let to the Post Office, a portion of the building was reserved by Government for the use of the Registrar General, but these Rooms are now in possession of the Post Office Authorities, who do not pay any additional Rent to the Colony. The Rent is altogether too low.

6. LICENSES:-The estimated sums for the various Licenses, are based on the Receipts in 1854, and part of 1855, The Licenses granted to Chinese for the SALE OF SPIRITUOUS LIQUORS and OPIUM, for PREPARING OPIUM and for PAWNBROKERS, have all increased on account of the great influx of Chinese from the adjacent disturbed province; but still there has been no applicant for a License to keep an OPIUM

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