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Report on the Revenue and other Accounts of the Colony of HONG KONG

examined by the Local Auditor for the year ended 31st December 1894.

1.

The Monthly Progress Returns sent home will

indicate the extent of examination and will show that

the Programme of Work approved for the year by the

Comptroller and Auditor General was practically carried

out in its entirety.

This Programme embraced the

examination in detail of nearly the whole of the

Revenue of the Colony with the exception of the Assessed

Taxes.

2. During the year under review good work has

been done in getting the Accounts of Squatters' Licenses

and Village House Rents into better order, and corrected

Rent Rolls as regards the latter are now in use;; steps

have also been taken, with the sanction of the Secretary

of