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Expenditure.

Forward,..

$757,396.78

$606,849.61

Public Latrine in Gough Street, Financial Minute

No. 21,.....

3,000.00

3,000.00

Supplementary Vote for New Territory, Financial

Minute No. 22,

5,000.00

5,000.00

Public Latrine at Sookunpo Market, Financial Mi-

nute No. 25,

3,292.88

1,137.54

Supplementary Vote for Water Accounts, Meters, &c.,

Financial Minute No. 30,

6,000.00

5,987.64

Supplementary Vote for Maintenance of Water Works, City and Hill District, Financial Minute No. 33, Amount of Compensation awarded to Madame Lucia

V. Musso, Financial Minute No. 35,................... Rain Storm Damages of 14th and 15th June, 1900,

Financial Minute No. 39 of 1900,

7,000.00

7,000.00

29,453.88

29,453.88

5,000.00

4,625.50

Supplementary Votes for :-

a. Starling Inlet Police Station, Financial

Minute No. 46,

5,471.98

4,100.15

b. Survey of New Territory, Financial Mi-

nute No. 46,

15,000.00

12,455.26

c. Rifle Range at Tai Hang, Financial Mi-

nute No. 46,

416.60

416.60

d. Gaol Extension, Financial Minute No.

46,

5,000.00

4,959.06

Supplementary Vote for Maintenance of Telegraphs,

Financial Minute No. 48,

1,000.00

984.84

Supplementary Vote for Maintenance of Water Works,

Kowloon, Financial Minute No. 52,

4,500.00

3,995,03

Telephone Communication with Police Station at San

Tin, Financial Minute No. 54,

...

944.04

944.04

Supplementary Vote, Maintenance of Sewers, Finan-

cial Minute No. 61,

2,000.00

1,531.80

Supplementary Vote, Maintenance of Water Works

City and Hill District, Financial Minute No. 61, Supplementary Vote, New Territory Public Works

Miscellaneous, Financial Minute No. 63, Signal Station at Green Island, Financial Minute No.

70,....

4,500.00

4,496.50

1,000.00

475.34

6,954.40

6,777.99

Total,

$862,930.56

$704,190.78

2. The balances remaining over on Public Works Extraordinary are due to the extreme difficulty experienced last year in getting contractors to undertake works except at exorbitant rates, the greatly increased cost of materials, and the scarcity of skilled labour, owing to the large works in progress in the Colony.

3. The following is a list of the sums collected by, or through, the Public Works Department during the year ;--

a. Premiums realized by sale of land, extensions, adjustments of

boundaries, &c......

b. Government stores sold in 1900,...

c. Fees for allotments in the Cemetery,

d. Fees for sheds in the Happy Valley, e. Loan of the Government Dredger, f. Loun of the Steam Roller, g. Miscellaneous,

..$810,614.20

4,792,91

254.50

945.95

50.00

185.00

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