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COLONIAL ESTIMATES HONGKONG.

EXPENDITURE DETAILED.

WORKS AND BUILDINGS.

$

COLONIAL ESTIMATES HONGKONG.

33

EXPENDITURE DETAILED.

LIGHTHOUSES.

Maintenance, &c., of Buildings, and Apparatus,...........

Interest on Loan from Special Funl, for cost of Lighthouses, and Sinking Fund, (3rd year), .

Pokfoolum Reservoir,

Repairs to Buildings,

1,500

12,000

TOTAL,..

Maintenance of Water Works,

5,000

Do.

of Telegraphs,

Do.

of Protestant Cemetery,

2,000

1,000

GOVERNMENT GARDENS AND PLANTATIONS.

Addition to Protestant Cemetery,

New Lock Hospital, (Revote),..

500

Maintenance of Government Gardens,

15,000

Tree Planting,

Lunatic Asylum, { ),.

15

5,000

:

Fittings for Offices in different Departments,

500

TOTAL,

#

Miscellaneous Works,

2,000

Sinking Fund for Praya Works Loan,

9,000

$

$

$

1,000

2,000

8,000

$

2,000

7,680

9,680

TOTAL,

53,500

MISCELLANEOUS SERVICES.

$

Lighting Street Lamps,

22,000

Expenses of the Clock Tower,

1,000

Commission to Crown Agents,

1,400

ROADS, STREETS, AND BRIDGES.

Telegraph Service,

4,000

$

Allowance to the City Hall, for Salary of Librarian and Curator of the Museum,

1,200

Maintenance of Piers,

1,000

Grant to the Native District Watchmen,

2,084

Drainage and Sewerage,

15,000

Rent of Marine Lot No. 66, (Crosby's Store),..

1,400

Roads out of Victoria,

8,000

Grant to St. John's Cathedral for the use of the Troops,

500

Road and Street Contingencies,

7,000

Colonial Defences,-Expenses of the Volunteers,

2,400

Repairing and making Streets in Taipingshan and Sai-ying Poon,

6,000

Subscription to Reuter's Telegrams,

1,000

Ty-tam-took Bridge,.

2,000

Other Miscellaneous Services,

4.000

Repairs to Bridges,

1,000

Watering Streets,

Widening Kennedy Road,

Miscellaneous Services,..

720

TOTAL.........

40,084

1,000

1,000

TOTAL,

42,720

MILITARY CONTRIBUTION.

Contribution to Imperial Government in aid of Military Expenditure, (£20,000 at the current

exchange of the day, say, 3/10),

104,348

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