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COLONIAL ESTIMATES-HONGKONG.

REVENUE DETAILED.

ESTIMATED For 1866. REVENUE OF 1864.

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COLONIAL ESTIMATES-HONGKONG.

REVENUE DETAILED.

ESTIMATED гоx 1866,

REVENUE OF 1864.

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Lease Lands,

Fees on grant of Lenses,

Premium by Purchases,-

LAND REVENUE:-

Lands not Leased including Stone Quarries,

Hongkong, Bowrington, ...$40,000

Land reclaimed West of Har-

Brought forward,..

750,270.00

551,727.89

143,000.00

3,000.00 500.00

SALE OF GOVERNMENT PROPERTY:-

Condemned Stores, &c.,.

100.00

736.80

MINT:-

48,000.00

bour Master Office,

RENTS, EXCLUSIVE OF LANDS:-

8,000

Seignorage on Coinage,..

12,000.00

194,500.00

184,471.11

REIMBURSEMENTS IN AID OF EXPENSES INCURRED

BY GOVERNMENT:--

Markets,

Buildings,

LICENSES:~

Spirit Rotailers,

$3,000.00 15,000.00

C.

Sick stoppages from Police Force,

1,200.00

48,000.00

46,250.50

Loss of Clothing and Arms from ditto,

25.00

28,000.00

Pawnbrokers,

6,000,00

Auctioneers,

4,000,00

Subsistence Money of Seamen, and others

in Victoria Gaol,...

500.00

Tenements for Emigrants,

25.00

Emigration Brokers,.

1,200.00

Medical Treatment of Sick Merchant Sea-

men, and others in Civil Hospital,

2,500.00

Billiard Tables, and Bowling Alleys,

1,000.00

Opium Monopoly,...

70,000.00

Convict Labour and other items, «

750,00

Boarding-houses,

550,00

Marriage,

60.00

Sale of Printed Forms,..

1,200.00

Chinese Undertakers,.

60.00

110,895.00

119,064.00

TAXES:-

Police Assessment,.

125,000.00

Water Rate,

25,000.00

Recovered from Diplomatic, Naval and Mili- tury Dep" on account of Gaol Expenses,

Incidental, including Fees from Scholars at Į

Central School,.

1,800,00

1,000.00

Lighting Rate,

21,000.00

POSTAGE,

171,000.00 185,000.00

122,492.01*

MISCELLANEOUS RECEIPTS:-

8,975.00

14,742.23

86,341.11

FINES, FORFEITURES & FEES OF COURT:--

Fines,

12,000.00

Interest on Monies deposited in Banks, Other Miscellaneous Receipts,.

5,000.00

1,000.00

Forfeitures,

1,000.00

6,000.00

Fees,

4,000.00

60,103.23

17,000.00

19,181.74

FEES OF OFFICE:-

SPECIAL RECEIPTS:-

2,956.92

On Cemetery Burials,

1,500.00

Registry of Boats,

5,000.00

Under Ordinance No. 12 of 1857,

7,500.00

7,581.00

Do. Cargo Boats and Crews,

1,500.00

Do. Hawkers,.

1,300.00

Cargo Boats Certificates, Ord. 15 of 1860,.

250.00

TOTAL,

$

784,845.00

637,846.37

Official Signatures, .

100.00

Registration of Deeds,.

2,000.00

Shipping Seamen,..

9,000.00

Examination of Masters, &c., Ord. 17 of 1860,

1,200.00

Ship Surveys,

50.00

Colonial Registers,

75.00

Merchant Shipping Act,

1,200.00

Registry of Carriages, &c., Ord. 6 of 1863,.

700.00

23,875.00

23,320,52

Curried forward,

$

750,270.00

551,727.89

Police and Lighting Rate in arrear.

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