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CLASS I.

1. LIGHT DUES, Ordinance 10 of 1899,

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HONGKONG ESTIMATES

TAXES.

Special Assessment, Ordinance 10 of 1899.

TOTAL..

2. LICENCES AND INTERNAL REVENUE NOT OTHERWISE

SPECIFIED :—

Approved

Estimate. 1917.

*

Estimate, 1918.

80,000

75,000 (1)

95,000

85,000 (1) (2)

$

175,000

160,000

Arms Licences, Ordinance 2 of 1900,

3,610

2,420 (3)

擻

Assessed Taxes, Ordinance 6 of 1901,

1,886,000

1,857,400 (4)

Do., Special War Rate, Ordinance 18 of 1917,

1,007,000 (5)

Auctioneers' Licences, Ordinance 8 of 1887,

1,200

1,200

Billiard Table and Bowling Alley Licences, Ordinance 8 of 1887,

1,800

900 (6)

Boarding-house Licences, Ordinance 10 of 1899,.....

75

Boat Licences, Ordinance 10 of 1899,

95,000

95,000

Carriage, Chair, &c., Licences, Ordinance of 1887,

Chinese Boarding-house Licences, Ordinance 30 of 1915,

Chinese Passenger Ship Licences, Ordinance 1 of 1889,

Chinese Undertakers' Licences, Ordinance 8 of 1887,

119,500

122,000 ̊ (4)

8.000

12,000 (7)

1,500

1,500

460

480

Companies Local Registers Licences, Ordinance 58 of 1911,

1,660

1,200

Dangerous Goods Licences, Ordinance 1 of 1873,

1,900

2,000 (4)

Dog Licences, Ordinance 5 of 1893,

6,200

7,000

Emigration Passage Brokers' Licences, Ordinance 30 of 1915, ...

1,400

1,600 J

Ferry Licences, Ordinance 34 of 1910,

10

10

Fines.

88,000

76,000 (4)

Fishing Stake and Station Licences, Ordinance 10 of 1899,

2,500

2,500

Fishing Licences,

10

10

Forestry Licences, New Territories, Ordinance 34 of 1910,

4,750

4,890

Forfeitures, ....

12,000

19,400 > (4)

Game Licences, Ordinance 6 of 1885,

1.400

1,500

Hawkers' Licences, Ordinance 8 of 1887,

Carried forward,....

35,000

2,221,975

38,500 (8)

3,254,585

1.

(1) Fewer ships of large tonnage expected to enter and clear.

(2)

Typhoon Refuge.`

REVENUE.

EXPENDITURE,

Light Dues, Special Assessment collected to

Do.. Balance.....

31st December. 1916........... $ 766,169 estimated for 1917,....

85.000 253.124

Half Payments to 31st December, 1916,

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estimated for 1917,

1,104,293 Nil.

Licence not renewed.

(4) Based on revised estimate for 1917. (5) New item.

$1,104,293

$ 1,104,293

(6) Previously over-estimated.

(7) New licensing system.

(8) Licence fees paid yearly in advance instead of half-yearly.