Public Band
SHANGHAI
865
Brought forward
Tls. 1,746,512.01
...
50,793.89
...
55,180.34
...
58,154.89
...
207,922.59
241,935.85
12,247.24
Education, including Public Schools
Finance Department
Secretariat, Tls. 141,321.03, General Tls. 66,601.56
Interest, Tls. 103,355.85, Redemption of Debentures, Tls. 138,600.00 Stocks and Stores
Tls. 2,372,747.71
The surplus of ordinary income over expenditure, and extraordinary income from various sources, including Tls. 90,000 raised by debentures, amounted together to Tls. 644,966, of which Tls. 614,912, was expended in new works, mostly municipal buildings, roads, bridges, and land for same.
The Ordinary Municipal Revenue for 1913 was estimated at Tls. 2,758,165 and the Ordinary Expenditure at Tls. 2,488,750; the Extraordinary Revenue, consisting of estimated surplus of Tls. 299,469 and Tls. 250,000 to be raised by debentures, at Tls 549,469, and the Extraordinary Expenditure, at Tls. 534,225.
The Revenue of the French Concession for 1912 was Tls. 664,639. 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.
...
Impôt extérieur and un-built-on Land
Licences, principally vehicles and opium divans
Taxes Various
Rent of Quays and Jetties and Wharfage Dues
Slaughter-Houses, Tls. 10,966.49, Miscellaneous, Tls.35,632.37
Interest
...Tls. 101,022.48
21,049.72 150,334.05 20,103.51 188,066.13
53,280.27
80,004.18
46,598.86
4,179.72
Tls. 664,638.92
The Expenditure of the French Municipality in 1912 amounted to Tls. 761,205 and was divided as under:—
Secretariat (Staff and General Charges)
Police Department
Public Works, Tls. 155,447.01, Works in Progress Tls. 52,121.65 Budget Special, Against Loan for Land and Buildings
Medical&Sanitary Tis.37,538,27, Allocationset DonationTis. 20,741,38 Lighting, Ths. 45,410.25, Fire Brigade, Tls. 11,526.34... Schools, Tis. 24,542.42, Telegraphis and Telephones Tls. 7,779,52 Volunteers, Tls. 9,801,70, Municipal Printing Office Tis. 4,918.71.
undries, Tis. 15,323.07, Interest, Tls. 62,222,20) .......
Tls. 41,071.19
156,969.82
207,568.69
116,490,13
58,280,85
57,136.59
32,822.21
13,820.24
77,548.27
Tls. 761,265,02
The Revenue for 1913, including the balance of Tls. 52,733.19 from 1912, was estimated at Tis. 700,578.19, and the Expenditure at Tls. 773,732.00, showing a probable deficit of Tis. 73,153.81.
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 : 81, a total of 5,589. In 1870, the total in the Anglo-American Settlement was 1,66; in 1876, 1,673; in 1880, 2,197: in 1885, 3,673; in 1890, 3,821; in 1895, 4,684; in 190, 7,3 6; in 1905, 11,497. By the census of 15th October, 1910, there were in both Settlements a totai of 15,012 foreigners; 1,356 in the British Settlement, now called Central District, 8,658 in Hongkew now Northern and Eastern Districts, 3,522 in Western Dis- trict, Outside Roads and Pootung, and 1,476 in the French Settlement, an increase of 2174 per cent. during the latter five years, against 45 per cont. during the previous five. The fluctuations in the foreign population have been very remark- able. 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
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