Estimates-1926 — Page 4

CLASS I.

HONGKONG ESTIMATES

TAXES.

Approved Estimate, 1926 Estimate, 1925

$

1. LIGHT DUES, Ordinance 10 of 1899

150,000

150,000

Do.,

Special Assessment, Ordinance 10 of 1899

165,000

165,000

TOTAL

2. LICENCES AND INTIERNAL REVENUE NOT OTHERWISE

SPECIFIED ;

315,000

315,000

Arms Licences, Ordinance 2 of 1900

1,230

Assessed Taxes, Ordinance 6 of 1901

3,000,000

2,420

3,500,000 (1)

Auctioneers' Licences, Ordinance 8 of 1887

1,800

3,600

Billiard Table and Bowling Alley Licences, Ordinance 8 of 1887

400

500

Boarding-house Licences, Ordinance 10 of 1899

75

75

Boat Licences, Ordinance 10 of 1899

110,000

110,000

Carriage, Chair, &c., Licences, Ordinance 40 of 1912

210,000

240,000 (2)

Cheung Chow Ferry Licences, Ordinance 28 of 1917

2,000

2,000

Chinese Boarding-house Licences, Ordinances 30 of 1915 and 23 of 1917

15,000

15,000

Chinese Passenger Ship Licences, Ordinance 30 of 1915

1,200

1,200

Chinese Undertakers' Licences, Ordinance 8 of 1887

640

700

Companies Local Registers Licences, Ordinance 58 of 1911

2,500

1,700

Dangerous Goods Licences, Ordinance 34 of 1910

Dog Licences, Ordinance 5 of 1898.

2,860

2,400

10,500

10,500

Emigration Passage Brokers Licences, Ordinance 30 of 1915

Ferry Licences, Ordinance 34 of 1910

1,400

1,400

9

Fines

120,000

100,000

Fishing Stake and Station Licences, Ordinance 10 of 1899

300

300

Fishing Licences

15

100

Forestry Licences, New Territories, Ordinance 34 of 1910

4,910

4,900

Forfeitures

58,000

82,000 (8)

Game Licences, Ordinance 15 of 1922

4,000

4,000

Gunpowder and Fireworks Licences, Ordinance 14 of 1901

35

35

Hawkers' Licences, Ordinance 8 of 1887

95,000

85,000

Carried forward

3,641,874

4,117,839

(1) Rateable value of the Colony increased. (2) Revised fees.

(3) Previously over-estimated.