Value of stock of Drain piping 370.00
Cement 23 Cask... 78.50 Oil i 6 Cases... 15.60 Export dues, Welch Lewis Ca., about $0.00
Balance due to Contractor for Municipal Buildings... 200.00 EH. W. Gzorce, Dependency omitted in above statement. Uncollected tax on low lying lots Tls. 300.00. azo Tle, 11,408.60 against Tie, 1158199 in Income,—The receipts during the past year Lowlying Lote.—The Council having failed to collect the tax authorised at the last An the previous year, showing a decrease of Tis nual Meeting, have not been i ion to 192.33.
Bund Frontage.—This account shows a comedy the nuisance arising, therefrom, The Gouneil are legally empowered to enforce question now resolves itself into, whether the deficit of Tls. 523.20 owing to the cancellation of the lease for Bund frontage granted Pa} yyment of the proj sed tax or whether to the agente of the Anshin Maru. the responsibility of having the nuisance Export dues show an increase of Tis abated rests with the occupiers of the pro-300.45. ties who suffer from the condition of the Ammunition.—The balance, Tis, 39.05, at complained of. credit of this account represents the amount Hanyang Bungalow.—From January st to received for ammunition sold during the year Mi, $5 pee mont It isin good order and May 3ist the Bungalow was let at a rental of stock brought forward from 1890.
it. Bankier, Assistant Superin-repair. tendent, left at the end of January and Mr.
Uemetery.—The Mortuary Chapel has been Drury was engaged in March to fill the re-painted and the walks and grass kept in condition. vacancy.
In April, on account of the visit of H.LH.
Police Station,—The new Police Station the Czarevitch, the native Police force was has been occupied since April last. 'The con-doubled for ten days. While the decoration tract money has been paid with the excep-was in progress and also during His Imperial tion of Tls. 200 retained against insusticient Highnew'e vist large crowds congregated. on joiners' work, which will have tobe renewed. the Bund in spite of the barricades which had Fire Department.—The Council have, in been erected at all the entrances to the Con-accordance with a resolution passed at the cession; she Police, however, under Super Landrenters' Meeting held on 23rd July, intendent Wilson and Assistant Superinte: 1891, ordered from Messrs. Merryweather ent Drury succeeded in maintaining excel-and Sons a steam fire engine. The cost laid leat order. down in Hankow will be about £580.
In June the number of the native Police Mr. Whistler, who has kindly given his force was permanently increased from 40 to attention to this matter, writes that the
Superintendent Wilson left the force in engine may be expected out in Februany. 'Fire reception' accorded to HIT. the June and in Axgust the Council engaged Czarevitch entailed an expenditure Mr. H. Millar, Superintendentand Local Post-pended master, Mr. Drury having filled the position Ts. in the meantime.
Decoration committee 1,723.86 The Council are well satisfied with the way 87.30
especially during H.J.H. the Czarevite in which Mr. Drary has sertormet his duti visit, and have voted him an advanced salary since Ist August.
Mr. Superintendent Millar's report is hereto appended. The charge sheet shows a very The following is the outgoing Council's large increase under the headings of "Petty estimate of Income and Expenditure for and assaulting the Police, and "Creating Larceny from cargo of Steamers," Obstructing 1892 1992, disturbances."
Tis. To Balance from 1891...
61.10 Police Station, ESTIMATED INCOME, Hankow, 5th January, 1892 To Land Tax 1,345.00 E. W. Gronor. Esq., 360.00 Secretary, Municipal Councit.
Sim,—L have the honour to forward herewith the Police report for the year 1891.
performed their duties (fairly) satisfactorily.
The native sergeants and constables have No case of any importance has come under the notice of the Police during the year.
The case of kidnapping, mentioned in the return of prisoners, took place in the country, By Police... the man being arrested by the Police when Roads and Bund passing through the Concession, The num.
Consular Bund of cases of assaulting the Police and of Lighting 750.00 creatingdisturbauce is greater than that of last Cemetery"... 30.00 ear, but that is owing to the very anti-foreign 3 Fire Dept. general Expenses for feeling that prevailed during' the greater year. a 50.00 part of the year.
Fire Engine £580 at Ex: 4/2 2,784.00 I append a list showing the number of Gardens. é 85.00 Peraous arrested and the punishments sward-Secretary's salary.. 500.00 Auditor's Fee 25.00 Return of persons charged during 189) 35.00 Petty larceny from cargo of steamers, 7: 25.00 petty larceny from dwelling houses, 9; petty 200.00 larceny from compounds, 7; petty larceny from godowns, 5; obstructing and assaulting Tis..14,017.33 the, Bt; creating a disturbance, 43 committing a nuisance, 4; kidnapping, 1; A. B. Reysent,—Chairman, miscellaneous, 7; total number of Chinese A. R. Greaves, arrested and charged, 178.
S. Pecuatsorr.
Retarn of Punishments:—Bambooed, 107; C. W. Goro dismissed with a caution, 36; to give secu-'The Chairman said that the accounts had rity, 15; sent to the Chinese authorities for punishment, 12; cangued, 7; innocent, 1; been distributed to all parties concerned total, 178. and he now invited the Landrenters. present to bring forward any question in reference to them, which they might wish explained.
Mr. Foster asked why the tax on lowlying lots had not been collected and Roads.—The Church and Club Roads have whether any action had been taken by the been picked up and remetalled, and all other Council in the matter. roads have been kept in ordinary repair.
'Mr, Reyvell replied that an endeavour Conswlar Bund.—In June last' the Council to collect this tax, through the represent received from H.B.M.'s Government the sum atives of the owners of the lowlying lots, of £300 granted to defray the expense of having failed, H.B.M.'s Consul had been raising and putting in good order the Consular Buud and Road on the North side of the applied to by the Municipal Council for Consulate. A contract has now been made to advice as to the beat means of enforcing carry out this work at a cost of Tls. 1,183.40 payment. exclusive of metalling, the expense of which 'H-B.M.'s Consul then rose and observed will be borne by the Council. that it would save time, if he personally
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