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SHANGHAI.
king-pang is the payment of rates to the amount of fifty taels annually, or being a householder paying rates on an assessed rental of twelve hundred taels. For the French Concession the requirement is a mo: etary one of about the same amount. Several efforts have been made to amal: amate the French with the other Settlements, but itherto without succ 8s. Meetings
Meetings of ratepayers are held in February of each year, at which the budgets are voted and the new Councils instructed as to the policy they are to pursue. No important measure is undertaken without being rerred to a special meeting of ratepayers. The Council divides itself into Delence, Finance, Watch, and Works Committee. This cosmopolitan system of Government has for many years worked so well and so cheaply, that Shanghai has fairly earned for its If the name of "The Model Settlement.'
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The Revenue of the "Anglo-American"
Anglo-American" Settlement fɔr 1880 amounted to Tls. 245,802.33 aud was derived as follows:-
Land Tax. four-tonths of 1 per cent.
General Municipal Rate, Foreign Houses 8 per cent. General Municipal Rate, Native Houses 10 per cent. Wharfage Dues
Licences, principally opium ships and jinrickshas Miscellaneous, including Local Post Office Surplus from 1879.
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Tls. 26,862.14
34,537.39
70,569.49
16.702.75
58,214.45
14,612.95
19,303.16
Tls. 245,802.33
The Expenditure for the same year was Tls. 242,962.82, and may be divided as
under:
Police Department
Sanitary Department, including Hospitals
Lighting
Public Works, includin, Garden and outsile roa Secretariat and General
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Loan. Interest, and Sinking Fund
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Volunteers
Fire Department
Local Post Office Tls. 3,980.32, Museum Tls. 500.00...
Tls. 4,875.25
21,728.79
15.436.72
96.812.90
26,8 3.99
20,004. 5 8.104.98 2,645. 2 4,480.32
Tls. 242,96..82
The Du-s 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 o the Licence fees have also been increased. The Municipal Revenue and Expenditure for 1881 were estimated at Tls. 225,158.
The Revenue of the French Concession for 1880 was Tls. 118,622.70. The sources from which it was derived were:
Land Tax, three fourths of 1 per cent.... Foreign House Tax, 4 per cent....
Tls. 8,561.81
2,4-0,55
Native House Tax, 8 per cent.
22,359.65
Licences, principally jiuricksbas, maisons de tolérance and
opinm shops
38,708.38
Cleaning and Lighting Rates and other Taxes Paid by the Taotai and rent of quays and jetties Miscellaneous receipts
18.132.99
15,387.52
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5,185.61
Balance from 1879
7,806.19
Tls. 118.622.70
The Expenditure amounted to Tls. 115,903.01
Secretariat...
Public Works (including Lighting)
Police ...
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Tls. 25,094.32
62,064.66 28,744.03
Tls. 115,903.01
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