SHANGHAI
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The Expenditure for the same year was Tls. 488,851.27, and was divided among the different departments as under :-
Police Department
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Sanitary Department, including Hospitals Lighting Tls. 26,307.96, Water Supply Tls. 13,455.20
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Public Works & Survey, incldg. Garden, Cemeteries, and outside roads Secretariat, Legal, and General
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...Tls. 93,235.89
44,447.71
39,763.16
179,513.42
39,018.91
22,094.68
18,925.35
3,970.50
20,703.33
10,000.00
17,178.32
Tls. 488,851.27
Interest Tls. 11,995.98, and Sinking Fund Tls. 10,098.70 Volunteers Tls. 8,275.93, Fire Dept. Tls. 4,831.02, Band Tls. 5,818.40, Education Tls. 2,870.50, Museum Tls. 500, Library Tls. 600 Local Post Office Tls. 5,144,80, Stores and Sundries 15,558.53 Loan of 1883, Repayment on account of,
Deficit 1890
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The Municipal Revenue for 1892 was estimated at Tls. 493,513.69, and the Expendi ture at Tls. 492,594.00.
The Revenue of the French Concession for 1891 was Tls. 160,020.21. The sources from which it was derived were:-
Land Tax, four tenths of 1 per cent.
Foreign House Tax, 4 per cent.
Native House Tax, 8 per cent.
Licences, principally jinrickshas, brothels and opium shops
Cleaning and Lighting Rates and other Taxes
Paid by the Taotai and rent of quays and jetties Miscellaneous receipts
Loan
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...Tls. 12,785.40
2,612.78
29,386.70
49,627.75
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24,858.30
16,532.56
4,169.97 20,655.75
Tls. 160,629.21
The Expenditure of the French Municipality in 1891 amounted to Tls. 141,769.60, and was divided as under:-
Secretariat (including Hospitals, Band, and Fire Brigade) Public Works (including Lighting) Police
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...Tls. 43,675.08
57,453.46 40,641.06
Tls. 141,769.60
The revenue and expenditure for 1892 were each estimated at Tls. 158,888.67. The Foreign population increased rapidly up to 1865, but declined considerably during the next ten years. The census of 1865 gave the nuinber of foreign residents in the three Settlements as 2,757, army and navy (British) 1,851, shipping 981, a total of 5,589. In the succeeding decade, 1876-85, however, it more than doubled, but since then has remained stationary. In 1870 the total in the Anglo-American Settlement was 1,666; in 1876, 1,673; in 1880, 2,197; and in 1885, 3,673. By the census of 24th June, 1890, there were in the Settlements north of the Yang-king-pang a total of 3,821 foreigners, 1,421 in the English division, 1,973 in Hongkew, 427 in outside roads and Pootung; of these 1,811 were males, 979 females, and 1,031 children, against 1,281 males, 218 females, and 167 children, a total of 1,666 in 1870; 1,171 males, 502 females, and 524 children, a total of 2,197 in 1880, and 1,775 males, 1,011 females and 887 children, a total of 3,673 in 1885. This shews an increase of only 148, of whom 144 are children, during the latter five years, whilst in the period from 1880 to 1885 the increase was 1,476. The increase has been greatest in Hongkew, where the population is three and a half-times what it was in 1876. The foreign population of the French Concession on the same date was 173 males, 123 females, and 148 children. The proportion of different nationalities in all the settlements was in 1890 1,662 British, 584 Portuguese, 350 American, 321 German, 229 Spanish, 263 French, 76 Danish, 207 of various other European nationalities, 403 Japanese, 98 Indians, and 72 Manilamen and other Asiatics. While the adult Foreign male population has increased only 41 per cent. since the census of 1870, the number of women has been multiplied four and a half and of children over six times. These figures do not include the population afloat, which at the date of the census was 1,009 against 893 in 1885. Although the Chinese have no right of residence within the Foreign Settlement, and indeed were expressly prohibited by the original Land Regulations, some twenty thousand sought refuge within the boundaries from the rebels in 1854, and when the city was besieged by the Taipings in 1860 there were, it is said, at least four hundred thousand natives within
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