China.—The total estimates for the Services in China are £54,855. The votes are as follows:—Salaries, allowances, and wages, £44,814; Legation Guards, £490 outfits and_ travelling, £4,500; rent allot ances, £750; postage and telegram: £1,200; incidental expenses, £1,766; prison expenses, witnesses, "deportations, etc., £150; medical attendance, £1,250 relief of distressed British subjects, £25. The following are the details of the respective votes for the Consular Services China.—Superintendency. Surgeon, £800, including £100 for knowledge of Chinese. The votes under the heading Shanghai ''Consulate-General and Court" are as follo Consular-General and Chief Justice, £2,000, with £100 as ex officio Registrar of British Shipping; Consul and Assistant Judge, £1,200, Consul, £700, with allowance as Assessor to Mixed-Court, £200; Vice-Consul, £650; Crown Advocate, £500; Chief Clerk, £450 personal salary; Usher, £200. Total, £6,000. Then come the votes for the Consuls, follow:—Amoy, £1,000; Canton, £1,200; Chefoo, £800; Chinkiang, £800; Chungking, 2800; ' Foochow, £1,000 including £100 local allowance; Hankow, £1,000; Tehang, 2200 Kiukiang £800; Kiungchow, 3. Newchwang, £800; Ningpo, £800; Pagoda Island (Vice-Consul), £600; Pakhoi, £800; Swatow, £800; Tientsin, £1,100 (including £100 local allowance), -Wenchow, £800, Wuhu, £800, and Momein (Yunnan), £800. Total, £16,300. There is also a vote of £600 towards new posts to be established on the West River and in Corea. There is also a vote of £1,200 for Consul-General at Corea, and a further vote of £366 allowances to two Assistants. There are also votes for Assistants and Students as follows:—Nine first-class at £400 a year each, £3,600; twelve second-class at £350 ayeer each, £4,200; allowance to assisttants employed in Chinese Secretary's office, £200. There is also a vote for allow ance to assistants attached to Shashi, Soochow, and Hangchow, £150 year each, '£450, Interpreters' allowances to assistants —eight at £100 and six at £50 a year each,
ditto to first assistant as Vice-Consul at Canton, £200; twenty student interpreters at £200 a year each, £4,000; prizes for ditto, £150; allowances to student interpreters as Assistants in Court, £50; ditto as Assistants in shipping office at Shanghai, £50; and to provide allowance to make up students' salaries to £300 a year each, whilst serving as Assistants, £1,300. "There is the usual vote for teachers, writers, or linguists, constables, boatmen, porters, coolies, and others employed on public service at the different Consulates, amounting to $45,212, or converted at 2s. 2d. the dollar, £4,898. There is an additional vote this year of £400 for wages of servants, ete., at Momein, Shashi, Soochow, and Hangchow. The total amount', therefore, for salaries, allowances, and wages is £46,064 but from this a deduction of £1,250 is made on account of savings by vacancies, etc., leaving as the final total, £44,814. "The vote for the Legation Guards at Peking is £400; outfit and travelling, including allowances for passages for Consular officers, student interpreters, and others, £4,500; rent allowances, £750; and postage and telegrams, £1,200, In this section there is also, under the heading of Incidental Expenses," a vote of £1,511 for allowances assigned to the different Consulates for office contingencies, including extra boat hire, boatmen, coolie hire, purchase of coal, etc, There is, in addition, a vote of £400 for incidental expenses of missions and Consulates, not included in fixed office allowances; making a total for incidental expenses of £2,111. From this £345 is deducted far printing, stationery, postage, and prison expenses, paid from fixed allowances, but chargeable under other sections, leaving £1,766. 'The remaining votes are:~Prison' expenses, witnesses, deportations, etc, £150; medical attendance, £1,250; relief of distressed British subjects, £25.
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