field, and G, Jamieson, H.M. Consul, in the Chair.
The Report and accounts of the out-going committee were then presented and read as follows Report of the Ki long Municipal Council for the year ending 3st December, 1881.
The Council in retiring from office, have the pleasure to report an improvement in the state of finances. Total receipts for the year 31st December 1881 being is, 1731—ie. 1672.94 for the preceding year.
position lias enabled the Council to redeem ten debentures of the 1876 Loan and. to carry out improvements which were much needed. The disbursements are thus greater than they have been for some years past. Raising the back road and repairs to the property of the Council have absorbed Tis, Expenses connected with the Police amount to Tls. 871.81, a sum somewhat in excess of thought desirable to engage an extra watch-Inst year's expenditare; but it has been mau, algo two coolies to keep the Bund and roads in order, thus allowing the police to attend more strictly to their own duties, The ata? now consists of eight natives under Eddowes, who speaks to their made up of 274.10, the no comment, and the Council have to congratu-having enter into an og Geo, MeBain fo of Bund frontage for three years of Tis, 500 per annum payable which places in a fayourabl financial po Guo, B. Grover, Chairman, J. Bouserenp, Hon, Treasurer Wautace J. Tucker, Hon. Secretary.
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