Public Band
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SHANGHAI
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Tls. 43,814.37
151,035.42
639
Education, including Library
Finance Department
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71,827.01
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165,952,33 315,420.69 496,878,61
Secretariat, Tls. 59,969.67, Tax Office, Tls. 105,982.66 General, Tls. 202,780.81, Stock and Stores, Tls. 112,639.88 Interest, Tls. 228,478.61, Redemption of Debentures, Tls. 268,400.00
Tls. 3,379,440.43
The surplus of ordinary income over expenditure, Tls. 75,687, and extraordinary income from various sources, amounted together to Tls. 1,099,735 and the extraordinary expenditure for drainage, land, roads, and buildings to Tls. 1,588,005 leaving a deficit carried forward of Tls. 488,870.
The Ordinary Municipal Revenue for 1918 was estimated at Tls. 3,895,780 and the Ordinary Expenditure at Tls. 3,591,610; the Extraordinary Revenue, consisting of estimated surplus of Tls. 304,170, Miscellaneous, Tis. 20,000 and Tls. 1,800,000 to be raised by debentures, at Tls. 2,424,270 and the Extraordinary Expenditure at Tls. 2,444,585.
The Revenue of the French Concession for 1917 was Tls. 901,001.97. 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. Licences, principally vehicles... Taxes, various
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Rent of Quays and Jetties, Wharfage Dues, Ground Rents, etc. Slaughter-Houses
Schools Police
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Miscellaneous
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.Tls. 149,944.27
59,104.77 201,039.17
240,938.50
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61,616.25
89,187.82
15,155.45
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16,474.97
32,344.48
15,438.65
19,757.64
Tls. 901,001.97
The Expenditure of the French Municipality in 1917 amounted to Tls. 1,317,880.21 and was divided as under :-
Secretariat (Staff and General Charges)
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...Tls. 54,341.73
Police Department
Public Works
Medical and Sanitary
Allowances and Donations
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Lighting, Tls. 62,392.89, Fire Brigade, Tls. 23,289.20
Schools, Tls. 49,947.89, Telegraphs and Telephones, Tls. 16,854.48 Volunteers, Tls. 2,716.87, Municipal Printing Office, Tls. 6,055.50 Miscellaneous Sundries
Interest and Sinking Fund
Public Works Extraordinary
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211,280.11
289,255.24
61,261.24
43,896.38
85,682.09
66,802.37
8,772.37
48,696.09
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94,574.67
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353,317.92
Tls. 1,317,880.21
The ordinary Revenue for 1918, including a balance of Tls. 44,863.04 from 1917, was estimated at Tls. 974,923.04 and the Expenditure at Tls. 1,046,284.00, and the Extraordinary Receipts, including balance of Tls. 224,474.30 from 1917 at Tls. 483,404.30 and the Extraordinary Expenditure at Tls. 258,930.00.
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, 2,107; in 1885, 3,673; in 1890, 3,821; in 1895, 4,684; in 1900, 7,396; in 1905,
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