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Appendix No. XIX.

NEW TERRITORY.

Statement of Revenue and Expenditure up to 31st December, 1899.

HEAD OF SERVICE.

Stone quarries,

Junk licences,

Pawnbrokers' licences,

Fines and Forfeitures,

Fishing nets,

Crown Rent,

Squatters' Fees,..

REVENUE.

AMOUNT.

291

TOTAL.

$ c.

$ c.

1,800.00

3,084.00

2,100.00

14.03

24.63

221.37

29.00

7,273.03

EXPENDITURE.

Personal Emoluments, Civil,

6,465.78

Do..

Police,

26,116.83

32,582.61

Other Charges, Civil,

8,748.94*

Do.,

Police,

21,103.52†

29,852.46

Public Works,

112,012.22

Matsheds,

3,964.20

Transport,

12,114.00

Furniture,

1,381.79

Compensation to owners of land,..

Expenses of H. M.'s Navy,

Steam-launches under construction,.....

Cost of Telephone Line from Kowloon to Táipó, Survey Party,

2,566.53

3,061.05

31,875.00

-

2,543.81

A

1,079.86

233,033.53

Treasury, 23rd January, 1900.

* Includes expenses of launches, coal, oil, &c.

+ Usual items under "Other Charges Police."

A. M. THOMSON, Treasurer.

[L.S.]

Appendix No. XX.

PROCLAMATION.

HENRY ARTHUR BLAKE,

Governor.

By His Excellency Sir HENRY ARTHUR BLAKE, Knight Grand Cross of the Most Distinguished Order of Saint Michael and Saint George, Governor and Com- mander-in-Chief of the Colony of Hongkong and its Dependencies, and Vice- Admiral of the same.

Whereas by an Order of the Queen's Most Excellent Majesty in Council, made on the 20th day of October, 1898, after reciting that by a Convention dated the 9th day of June, 1898, between Her Majesty and His Imperial Majesty the Emperor of China, it is provided that the limits of British territory in the regions adjacent to the Colony of Hongkong, shall be enlarged under lease to Her Majesty in the manner described in the said Convention; and after reciting that it is expedient to make provision for the Governinent of the territories acquired by Her Majesty under the said Convention, during the continuance of the said lease, it was ordered (inter alia) as follows:

1. The territories within the limits and for the term described in the said Convention shall be and the same are hereby declared to be part and parcel of Her Majesty's Colony of Hongkong in like manner and for all intents and purposes as if they bad originally formed part of the said Colony.