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TABLE II.

Revenue and Expenditure.

TABLE III.

Comparison between the sources of revenue of 1897 and 1926.

Year ended 31st December.

Revenue.

Expenditure.

State of Reserve Fund on 1st January.

Teads of Revenue

Revenue for 1926.

Revenue for 1897.

1897

$2,686,914.70

$2,641,409.71

$548,964.46

1. LIGHT DUES.

1898

2,918.159.24

2,841,805.20

Dr.

110.544

2,567.92

114,176

I899

3,610,143.25

3,162,792,86

213,368.39

1900

4,202,587.40

3,628,447.13

Do. Special Assessment, Ord. No. 10

Dr.

311,773.82

of 1899

1901

4.213.893.22

4,111,722.49

127,655

1,100,785.69

1902

4,901,073.70

5,909,548.51

1,086,523.54

1903

6,238,857.88

5,896,669,48

66,869.88

1904

6,809,047.99

6,376,235.80 Dr.

2. LICENCES AND INTERNAL REVENUE

62,711.46

NOT OTHERWISE SPECIFIED :—

1905

6,918,408.85

6,951,275,26

297.722.83

1906

7,035,011.78

6,832,610,68

441.406.66

Arms Licences

1907

6,602,280.25

5,757,208.47

2,400

652,236.11

Assessed Taxes

1908

3,636.668

6,104,207.33

7,929,477.91

1.4144,738.86

430 429,137

Auctioneers' Licences

1909

6,822,966.93 (1)

6,542,839.32

Dr.

1910

6,960,869.28

6,907,113.40

1911

7.497.231.23 (2)

7,077,177.23

283,095.03

351,097.94

1,406,924,96

3,000

1,800

Billiard Table and Bowling Alley Licences.......

350

900

Boarding-house Licences

75

206

Boat Licences

1912

8,180,694.08

7.202.548.25

115,406

1,826,978.90

6.971

1913

8,512,308.84

Cargo Boat Licence

8,658,012.98

2,805,129,79

11.448

1914

11.007,273.09 (3) (4)

10,756,224.82

Carriage, Chair &c. Licences

2,659.425.70

240,156

48,824

1915

11,786,106.73 (4)

15,149,267.54

2,910,473,97

Chinese Boarding-house Licences

16,721

1916

13,833,386,86 (2) (4) (5)

11,079,914.82

Dr.

1917

15,058,104.71

14,090,828,09

452,686.84

2,300,785,20

Chinese Passenger Ship Licences

1.875

380

Chinese Undertakers' Licences

860

200

1918

18,665,248.41 (4)

16,252,171.87

3,268,061.82

Companies Local Registers Licences

1.824

2,863

1919

16,524,974.90

Dangerous Goods Licences

2,508

505

17,915,925.36

5,681,138.36

Dog Licences

14,862

1920

14.689,671.93

14,489,598.52

2,483

4,290.187.90

1921

17,728,131,94 (2) (6) (7)

15,739,652.40

4,490,266.31

Emigration Passage Brokers' Licences

1.200

1,000

1922

22,291,064.81 (2) (6) (8)

18,563,002.01

6,478,745.85

Ferry Licences, N.T.

Fines

134.169

1923

24,788,762.53 (9)

21,571,904 72

12,658,642.41

31,835

1924

24,209,689.72 (10)

Fishing Stake & Station Licences

1,189

26,726, 428.44

16,971,495.23

1925

28,244,365.94

28,266,817.94

13,107,549.29

Fishing Licences

70

1926

21,131,581.64 (2) (11)

28.524.715.94

1927

21,007,897.00

(Estimate)

22,814,702.00

(Estimate)

8,118,482.68

3,486,290,54 (12)

Forfeitures

Game Licences.

Junk Licences

Forestry Licences, N.T.

4.889

87,749

3,430

4,357 120

Hawkers' Licences

81.206

6.835

82,103

29,061

Kowloon (West Ferry Licences)

247,180

Kowloon (East Ferry Licences)

16,120

(1) Liquor duties imposed.

(2) Liquor duties raised,

(3) Govt. Opium monopoly instituted.

(4) Price of opium raised.

Liquor Duties

1.186.313

Liquor Licences

393,898

67,137

Marine Store Dealers' Licences

10.080

5,280

Marriage Licences

820

482

(5) Tobacco duties imposed.

Money Changers' Licences

9.960

550

(6) Tobacco duties increased.

(7) Land Sales $1,634,098 see Table V.

Opium Monopoly

2,831,305

Pawnbrokers Licences

132,713

286,000 39,000

(8) Land Sales $2,721,804 see Table V.

(9) Land Sales $3,488,797 see Table V.

Permits to cut Earth and Stone. N.T. Pharmacy and Poison Licences

Pilots' Licences

1.859

170 150

(10) Land Sales $1,909,236 ser Table V.

(11) Including $1,846,160.47 transferred from Exchange Account to

Miscellaneous Receipts.

(12) of which only $1,591,203.00 represents invested funds, the rest being

tied up in Subsidiary Coins, Advances, Building Loans, Stores, etc.

Carried forward.

9,471,436

1,086.433

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