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SHANGHAI
The surplus of ordinary income over expenditure, namely Tls. 484,529, with an authorised Loan of Tls. 120,000, was, after paying deficit on extraordinary account from 1904, Tls. 112.140, expended in new works, mostly roads and land for same, leaving a balance to be carried forward to Extraordinary Budget of 1906 of Tls. 221,959.
The Ordinary Municipal Revenue for 1906 was estimated at Tls. 1,774,000 and the Ordinary Expenditure at Tls. 1,514,000; the Extraordinary Revenue at Tls. 481,959 (surplus from 1905 Tls. 221,959, and estimated surplus on Ordinary Budget 1906 Tis. 260,000) and the Extraordinary Expenditure, including Tls. 196,200 for purchase of Land, at Tls. 529,500.
The Revenue of the French Concession for 1905 was Tls. 456,351. The sources from which it was derived were:-
Land Tax, five-tenths of 1 per cent. Foreign House Tax, 8 per cent.
Native House Tax, 12 per cent.... Impôts extérieurs
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Licences, principally jinrickshaws and wheelbarrows Taxes...
Rent of Quays and Jetties and Wharfage Dues...
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...Tls. 32,995.63
Electric Lighting Tls. 18,432.79, Water Supply Tls. 32,637.68... Slaughter Houses Tls. 13,773.51, Miscellaneous Tls. 16,947.93...
15,612.98 107,384.05
2,228 80 103,407.42
33,212.94
79,717.45
51,070.47
3.),721.44
Tls. 456,351.18
The Expenditure of the French Municipality in 1905 amounted to Tls. 391,427 and was divided as under:—
Secretariat (Staff and General Charges)
Public Works
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Municipal Undertakings, Lighting, Water, &c. ... Public Works Extraordinary
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Police Department
Interest...
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Sanitary Education, Volunteers, Fire Brigale, Hospitals, &c. ...
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...Tls. 30,768.08
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75,294.93 62,685.13
53,356.72
90,140.18
51,662.19 27,520.06
Tls. 391,427.29
The Revenue for 1906, including the balance of Tls. 104,232 from 1905, was estimated at Tls. 567,875, and the Expenditure including Tls. 193,500 for the budget de prévisions, at Tls. 560,929.
POPULATION
The Foreign population increased rapidly up to 1865, but declined considerably during the next ten years. 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. In 1870 the total in the Anglo-American Settlement was 1,666; in 1876, 1,673 ; in 1880, 2,197; in 1885, 3,673; in 1890, 3,821 ; in 1895, 4,684. By the census of 26th May, 1900, there were in both Settlements a total of 7,396 foreigners; 1,436 in the English division, 4,510 in Hongkew, 828 in Western district, outside roads and Pootung, and 622 in the French Settlement, an increase of 45 per cent. during the latter five years, against 23 per cent, during the previous five. In the next five years the foreign population increased nearly seventy per cent. (over 80 per cent. in adults and 37 per cent. in children). A census (inclusive of the French Settlement) was taken on October 14th, 1905, when the total number of foreigners was 12,328; of these 6,144 were male adults 3,417 female adults, and 2,767 children (1,303 males and 1,464 females) against 3,181 males, 1,776 females, 1,817 children in 1900; 2,068 males, 1,227 females and 1,389 children in 1895. The population in 1905 was located, in the Central district (British Settle- ment) 1,444, Northern 6,018, Eastern 1,891 (the two latter being the extended Hongkew or American Settlement), Western residential suburb 1,286, Öutside Roads 505, Poo- tung and hulks 353, French Concession 662, French Outside Roads 169, The fluctua- tions in the foreign population have been very remarkable. Between 1870 and 1880 the number of adult males decreased, while in the next five years it increased by over fifty per cent. In the nine years, 1876 to 1885, the whole foreign population more than doubled, but in the next five years it showed an increase of only 148, of whom 144 were children. The increase has been mostly in the Hongkew district where the population is now eight times what it was in 1880, while during the same period the increase in the British Settlement has been under fifty per cent. While the foreign adult males have increased only four and a quarter times since the census of 1876 the
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