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No. 17a.

91.

HONGKONG.

QUESTIONS ASKED BY HON. T. H. WHITEHEAD IN COUNCIL ON THE 30TH APRIL, 1891, AND THE ANSWERS THERETO.

Question :-

1. Will the Honourable the Colonial Treasurer give the Council some inform- ation regarding the various items aggregating Millions of Dollars under the heads of Receipts and Payments in the Statement dated the 6th instant, and laid before the Council on the 10th idem, and further

2. An explanation as to the decrease in expenditure against the name of the Postmaster General as appears in said Statement under the heads of Establish- ments and Services Exclusive of Establishments.

HON. COLONIAL TREASURER.

W. M. DEANE, Acting Colonial Secretary.

24th April, 1891.

HONOURABLE ACTING COLONIAL SECRETARY.

1. Information within.

2. I find that this Statement was only inserted for the first time in 1881. As it has to do with the Treasury books, and is not in any way essential, I propose to discontinue it.

N. G. MITCHELL-INNES.

27th April, 1891.

RECEIPTS.

1. Deposits Available,-Premia on Land Sales, ...$

16,638.80

2.

Other Deposits,

1,106,000.00

3. Deposits not Available,

$1,122,638.80 1,511.00 29,678.04

4. Advance Account,

5. Family Remittances,...

6. Subsidiary Coins,.

7. Money Order Account,

8. Exchange Account,.............

9. Crown Agents' Account,

10. Crown Agents, Bills Outstanding,

11. Purchase of Marine Lot No. 18,....................

12. Praya Reclamation,

13. Suspense Stores Account,

Cash in hand, 1st January, 1890,

1. Premium on Land Sales during 1890.

24,079.90

1,154,757,43

132,479.23

4,842.71

1,915,881.98

206,000.00

185,461.64

688.06

93,804.10

134,653.28

2. Silver Coins issued during the year, by Treasury order to Hongkong &

Shanghai Bank.

3. Sikh Police Fund, Police Fine Fund, Intestate Estate, &c., received.

4. Advances recovered.

5. Family Remittance Drafts issued during 1890.

6. Silver Coins Account, received from England during 1890, $1,150,000;

Surplus Silver returned, $4,757.43.

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