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COLONY OF HONGKONG.

RETURN OF REVENUE AND EXPENDITURE DURING THE YEAR ENDED 31st DECEMBER, 1899.

REVENUE.

Amount Estimated.

Total Revenue,

More than Less than Estimated. Estimated,

EXPENDITURE.

Amount Total More than Less than Estimated. Expenditure. Estimated. Estimated,

$

$

(..

LIGHT DUES,

LICENCES AND INTERNAL REVENUE NOT OTHERWISE SPE-

51,000

52,406.93

$ 1,408.93

"".

$

C.

CIPLED-

Arms Ordinance,..

430

Assessed Taxes,

486,000

381.00 519,184.42

40.00

33,184.42

Auctioneers' Licences,

1,500

Billiard Tables and Bowling Alleys Licences,

860

1,500.00 1,100.00

250.00

Boarding-house Licences,

Charge on Account of Public Debt, Pensions,

Governor and Legislature.

Colonial Secretary's Department,

Audit Department,

Treasury,

Public Works Department,.

$ 160,808.00

$ 158,819.38

$

$ 1,088.62

162,000,00

170,646.26

8.846.20

42,303.00

48,889.22

6,586.22

30.027.00

32,187,34

1,260.34

10,000.00

0,518.72

481.28

22.735.00

22,581.83

353.17

92,990.00

93.009.771

919.77

3,000

2,143.75

TE

856.25

Boat Licences,.......

Post Office,

236,567.00

237,902.76

1,335.76

6,500

10,053,30

3,553.30

Cargo Boat Licences,

Begistrar General's Department,

13,171.00

14,448.22

1,277.22

+

11,800

11.471.20

328.80

Harbour Master's Department,

63,586.00!

62.983.00

653.00

Carriage, Chair, &c., Licences,.

13,000

46,225.40 3,225.40

Chinese l'assenger Ships Licences,

Lighthouses,

15,770.00

11,864.44

3,905,56

350

275.00!

75.00

Chinese Undertakers' Licences,

Observatory,

19,436 00

13,068.32

367.68

200

140.00

00.00

Dog Licences,

Fines, .....

Forfeitures,

Hawkers' Licences,

Junk Licences.

Stamp Office,

3,692.00

3.689.97

2.03

2,500

Emigration Brokers' Licences,...

2,709.00

209.00

Botanical and Afforestation Department,

18,103.50

18.293.87 190.37!

1,000

800.00

200.00

40,100

Legal Departments,

73,462.00! 83.711.52 10,249,59

35,030.67

5,069.33

Ecclesiastical,

2,200.00

1,810.00

390,00

5,720

14,045,60

8,325.60

Education,

82,000.00 76,152.57

6.847.43

6,700

9,537.50

2,837.50

28,000

Medical Departments,

112,609.00

113,663.19 1,054.19

36,924.00

8,324.00

Magistracy,

19,588.00

21.353.58 1,765.58

Kerosene Oil Licences,

560

625.00

65.00

Police,

Marine Store Dealers' Licences.

5.400

5,805.00

405.00

Gaols,

Marriage Licences...

307,648.30

339,657.27 32,008,97

Money Changers' Liceuces,

545

670.00 485.00

305.00

Fire Brigade,

60.00

Opium Monopoly,

Sanitary Department,

113,007.00

122,605.05 9,598.06

372,000

372,000.00

Charitable Allowances, .......

5,260.00

4,101.64

1,158.36

Opium Divan,

1.200

1,750.03

350.00

Pawnbrokers Licences.....

Transport

8,000.00

9,830.96 6,636.96

39.000

41,100.00

2,100.00

Special Service,

14,000.00

***

14,000,00

Shooting Licences,

100

Special Fruit Licences,

Spirit Licences, .......

68,600

$20.00 315.00 $2,501.50

13,904.50

420.00

315.00

Public Works, Recurrent,

Miscellaneous Services,

176.336.00

518,033.54886,697,54

Military Expenditure,

561,573.00

207,000.00

619.388.53 87,815.53 198,46 1.65

8,535.35

Stamps....

300,000

360,999.15

60,999.1a

Steam-Launch Licences,

5000

1.093.50

293.50

FEES OF COURT OK ÖFFICE, PAYMENTS FOR SPECIFIC PUR-

POSES, AND REIMBURSEMENTS IN AID:

Bills of Health,

2,200

2.640.00

440.00

Births and Deaths, Registration of..............

160

330.50

165.50

Cargo Boat Certificates,

1,900

2,046.00

146.00

Cemetery Burials,

700

1.128.25

428.25

Cemetery Fees from Public Cemeteries for Chinese,

1,200

1,175.00

25.00

Chinese Gazette, Sale of

27

34.00

7.00

Companies, Registration of

1,500

6,638.00

4,138.00

Convict Labour and other items,

14,000.

4,667.41

9,432.59

Certificate to Chinese entering America,

- 15,000

17,175.00

2,175,00

Deeds, Registration-of

Engagement and Discharge of Seamen,

4,600 22,200

9,968.50 5,468.50

:

Examination of Masters, &c.,

2,100

21,877.80

57.50

Fees of Court,.....

Faesen Grant of Legesse

Fees for testing Petroleum,

Gaol Expenses,--Recovery from Diplomatic, Navar

litary Departmelits, Senmeu anil Debtors..........

Gunpowder, Storage of......

18,000

2,385.70 1.276,41

Householders, Registration of

1,270

1,877,50

$1,276.41 607.50

Imperial Post Office, Contribution from

Jellunt

Lock Hospital, Grant-in-Aid from Admiralty,.

1.045

1,026,92 !

Medical Examination of Emigrants,

20,000

19,245.75

18.08 751.25

Medical Registration Fees, ......!..

10

Medical Treatment of Patients in the Civil Hospital,

25,000

50.00 25,253.39

40.00 253.39

Maintenance of Gap Rock Lighthouse-Contribution from

Chinese Imperial Government towards the

750

750.00

LET

Official Administrator and Trustee,......

3,000

6,414.50

Official Signatures,.

460

036.02

Printed Forms, Sale of

200

274.00

3.414.80

176.02

74.00

Private Moorings and Buoys, Bent for

2,380

3,000.00

120.00

Queen's College, Fees from Scholars,

25,000

27,245.00

2,245.00

Registry Fees,

300

520.00

220.00

Refund of Police Pay,

1,500

1,744.15

244.15

Refund Cost of Police and other Stores,......

500

755.54

255.51

Sick Stoppages from Police Force,.

800

1,241.08

441.08

Steam-Launches, Surveyor's Certifiente.

1,500

1,920.00

420.00

Survey of Steam-Ships,

11,000

11,678.61 |

678.61

School for Girls, Fees from Scholars,

Sunday Cargo-Working Permits,

Trade Marks, Registration of

715 15,000 9,500

772.50

57.50

21,825.00 4,719.00

6,825.00 1,219.00

POST OFFICE :--

Postage...

330,000

317,909.86 i

12.090.64

REST OF GOVERNMENT PROPERTY, LAND AND HOUSES:-

Buildings,

Laundries,

360 700

592.00 1,200.00 500.00

32.00

Leased Lands......

232,000

248.441.77 16,441.77

Lands not Leased.

11,000

15,298.18 4,298.18

Markets,

73,700 80,901.38 5,201.38

Stone Quarries,

Piers........

Slaughter House,

15,000 12,780.46

2,219,54

15,860 18,600.00 2,740.00 44,000 45,000.00 1,000.00

Sheep and Pig Depôts,

INTEREST,

11,000 1,500

11,673.21

673.21

1,500.00

MISCELLANEOUS RECEIPTS:-

Condemned Stores, &c.,

1,500

2,239.24

739.24

Interest for use of Furniture at Government House,

145

145.00

Night Soil Contracts,

27,840

30,384,00 2,544.00

Other Miscellaneous Receipts,

15,000

Profit on Subsidiary Coins,

100,000

168,553,25

60,307.76 45,307.76 68,553.25

TOTAL, exclusive of Land Sales and Water Account,...$ | 2,575,187 |2,865,759.76 [328,008,44|33,285,68|

LAND SALES, .....

WATER ACCOUNT-Ord. 16 of 1890, ............

TOTAL,

200,000 617,824.72 | 417,824.72

111,000 126,558.77 15,558.77

Treasury, Hongkong, 12th April, 1900.

$

Public Works, Extraordinary, ..............................

2,563,771.80 | 3,031,131,60|506,042.28, 38,682,48

310,500,00

181,660,76

178,889.24

$2,886,187 3,610,148.25 | 757,201.93 33.285.68

TOTAL..........................

..$ | 2,874,271.80| 3,162,792.34|506,042.28 || 217,521,72

Public Works Extraordinary chargeable against the New Loan, $

183,700

121,240.10

62,459,90

A. M. THOMSON, Treasurer.

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