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SHANGHAI
Public Band
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Education, including Library
Finance Department
Brought Forward
...Tls. 1,778,450.99
56,771.25
68,511.78
63,130.07
145,060.50
114,797.32
257,560.68
Secretariat, Tls. 56,616.32, Tax Office Tls. 88,444.18... General, Tis. 80,842.25, Stock and Stores Tls. 33,955.07
Interest, Tls. 115,360.68, Redemption of Debentures, Tls. 142,200.00
Tls. 2,484,282.59
The surplus of ordinary income over expenditure, and extraordinary income from various sources, including Tls. 656,300 raised by debentures, amounted together to Tls. 1,089,243, of which Tls. 1,075,493 was expended in new works, including Tls. 527,097 for land for extension of Central Municipal Offices.
The Ordinary Municipal Revenue for 1914 was estimated at Tls. 2,872,205 and the Ordinary Expenditure at Tls. 2,652,335; the Extraordinary Revenue, consisting of estimated surplus of Tis. 219,870 and Tls. 400,000 to be raised by debentures, at Tls. 643,620, and the Extraordinary Expenditure at Tls. 632,115.
The Revenue of the French Concession for 1913 was Tls. 735,287. 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.
Impót extérieur and un-built-on Land Licences, principally vehicles...
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...Tls. 100,904.23
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Rent of Quays and Jetties, Wharfage Dues, Ground Rents, etc....
Taxes, Various
Slaughter-Houses
Miscellaneous
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22,331.80 161,892.99 21,017.20
220,098.31
53,602.61
98,448.39
10,486.67
46,504.45
Tls. 735,286.65
The Expenditure of the French Municipality in 1913 amounted to Tls. 782,790 and was divided as under :—
Secretariat (Staff and General Charges)
Police Department
Public Works
Medical and Sanitary
Allocations et Donations
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Lighting, Tls. 46,378.17, Fire Brigade, Tls. 13,640.45
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...Tls. 43,661.29
159,951.31
300,320.34
40,686.58
20,387.64
60,018.62
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37,068.05
6,692.58
51,896.88 62,106.73
Schools, Tls. 29,299.81, Telegraphs and Telephones, Tls. 7,768.24 Volunteers, Tls. 3,052.96, Municipal Printing Office, Tls. 3,639.62. Miscellaneous Sundries
Interest and Sinking Fund
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Tls. 782,790.02
The Revenue for 1914, including a balance of Tls. 5,230 from 1913, was estimated at Tls. 723,438, and the Expenditure at Tls. 714,050.
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; in 190, 7,396; 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 cent.
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
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