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SHANGHAI,
The Revenue of the "Anglo-American Tls. 258,585.81 and was derived as follows:-
Land Tax, three-tenths of 1 per cent. ... Foreign House Tax, 6 per cent.
Native House Tax, 8 per cent. Wharfage Dues
Licences
Miscellaneous
Sinking Fund
...
1.
309
95
Settlement for 1879 amounted to
Tls. 20,13 191
25,864.73
53.009.36
87,196.97
46,015.24
4
15,597.47 10,762.13
Tls. 258,585.81
The Expenditure for the same year was Tls. 247,522.45, and may be divided as
under :-
Police Department
Sanitary Department
Lighting
Public Works
Secretariat and General
Loan, Interest, and Sinking Fund Volunteers
Fire Department
Miscellaneous
...
Tls. 45,462.26 25,533.93
15,05 .79
83,005.08
28,66-.08
33,238.03
L
...
5,4 3.83 5,318.20 5,788.25
Tls. 247,52.45
The Dus on Merchandise, hitherto the largest source of revenue, have now been abandoned, and in place thereof the Land and Foreign House tax has been raised one-third and native house tax one-fourth; most of the Licence fees have also been increased. The Municipal Revenue and Expenditure for 1880 were estimated at Tls. 225,000.
The Revenue of the French Concession for 1879 was Tls. 109,717,53. sources from which it was derived were:
The
Land Tax, 1 per cent.
Foreign House Tax, 4 per cent....
Native House Tax, S per cent.
Licences
Cleaning and Lighting Rates and other Taxes Wharfage Dues
Sundries
..
...
Tls. 12.08.80
101
2,590.17
21.255.77
30.816.29
19,066.44
15.387.52
7,792.54
Th· Expen·liture amounted to Tls. 101,911.34:—
Secretariat...
Public Works (including Lighting) Police ...
Tls. 109.717.53
Tls. 27,961.88 47.217.96 26,73 .50
Tls. 101,911.34
The revenue for 1880 was estimate at Tls. 95,230, exclusive of the balance from 1879, and the expenditure at Tls. 103,000.
The Foreign population has considerably decreased from what it was at one time. The census of 1865 gave the number of foreign residents in the three Settlements as 2,757, army and navy (British) 1,851, shipping 981, a total of 5,589. B the census of 1880 there were in the Settlements north of the Yang-king-pang a total of 2,197 foreigners, 1,168 in the English division and 1,029 in Hongkew and Postung; of these 1,171 were males, 502 females and 524 children. The proportion of different nationalities was 1,044 (or ab ut one-half) British, 285 Portuguese, 230 American, 190 German, 76 Spanish, 41 French, 32 Danish, 57 of various other European nationalities, 168 Japanese, an1 74 Manilamen and other Asiatics. While the adult European male population has decreased since the census of 1870 by 110, the number
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