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COLONIAL ESTIMATES--HONGKONG.

REVENUE DETAILED.

REFERENCES

ESTIMATED FOR 1870,

REVENUE OF 1868.

TO

REMARKS,

COLONIAL ESTIMATES-HONGKONG.

REVENUE DETAILED.

ESTIMATED FOR 1870.

REVENUE OF 1868.

LAND REVENUE:—

Lease Lands, $ 180,000.00 $ 720,085.00 Lands not Leased including Stone Quarries, 6,500.00 1,072,869.12 Fees on Grant of Leases, 50.00 136,550.00 Premium by Purchases, 150,211.28 Brought forward,.. RENTS, EXCLUSIVE OF LANDS:- Markets, 30,000.00 16,000.00 Buildings, 46,000.00 49,795.60 SALE OF GOVERNMENT PROPERTY:- Condemned Stores, &c., 500.00 2,364.80 MINT:- Sale of Machinery, 19,038.69 LICENSES:- Spirit Retailers, 30,000.00 Pawnbrokers, 8,000.00 Auctioneers, 4,000.00 Tenements for Emigrants, 150.00 Emigration Brokers, 2,000.00 REIMBURSEMENTS IN AID OF EXPENSES INCURRED BY GOVERNMENT:- Billiard Tables, and Bowling Alleys, 1,200.00 Opium Monopoly, 110,000.00 Boarding-houses, 400.00 Sick Stoppages from Police Force, 1,500.00 Marriage, 50.00 Loss of Clothing and Arms from ditto, 50.00 Chinese Undertakers, 50.00 Money Changers, Marine Store Dealers, TAXES:-- Stamps, 159,050.00 414,661.76 Police Assessments, 94,000.00 Subsistence Money of Seamen, and others in Victoria Gaol, 120.00 Medical Treatment of Sick Seamen, and others from Civil Hospital, 4,200.00 Water Rate, 120,000.00 Lighting Rate. 80,000.00 Fire Brigade Rate, 21,000.00 POSTAGE, Grant in aid of Lock Hospital Expenses from Admiralty, 3,840.00 9,000.00 Convict Labor and other items, 20.00 274,000.00 62,000.00 322,996.29 62,977.80 Sale of Printed Forms, 700.00 FINES, FORFEITURE & FEES OF COURT:— Fines. 13,000.00 Forfeitures, 1,500.00 Fees, 3,000.00 28,301.84 17,500.00 Recovery from Diplomatic, Naval and Military Dept on account of Gaol Expenses, 2,000.00 Contribution from Imperial Post Office, 6,000.00 Sale of Chinese Gazette, 50.00 On Cemetery Burials, Passes do., FEES OF OFFICE:- Licenses for Junks, &c., Ord. 6 of 1866, 800.00 Registry of Boats, 10,421.94 Do. Cargo Boats and Crews, 8,500.00 Cargo Boats Certificates, Ord. 15 of 1860, 6,000.00 Hawkers, 1,300.00 Registration of Householders, Ord. 7 of 1866, 3,000.00 Incidental, including Fees from Scholars at Central School, 1,200.00 19,780.00 MISCELLANEOUS RECEIPTS :— Interest, 10,000.00 1,700.00 Storage of Gunpowder, 200.00 10,000.00 2,500.00 do., ,, Servants, &c., 300.00 Other Miscellaneous Receipts, 1,700.00 Official Signatures, 60.00 21,700.00 20,125.84 Registration of Deeds, 1,200.00 SPECIAL RECEIPTS:- Shipping Seamen, 6,500.00 Examination of Masters, &c., Ord. 17 of 1860, 600.00 Under Ordinance No. 10 of 1867, Ship Surveys, 75.00 Colonial Registers, Merchant Shipping Act, 700.00 10,000.00 9,785.80 Registry of Carriages, &c., Ord. 6 of 1863, 1,000.00 Registration of Companies, 250.00 84,585.00 43,424.55 Carried forward, 729,885.00 1,072,369.12

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