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 608 CAPE OF GOOD HOPE.

The various branches of expenditure in 1868 were as follows : —

Branches of Expenditure Amount

£

Governor and other officers 48,733

Judicial 16,168

Administration of justice 10,535

Divisional courts 28,006

Civil commissioners. 12,941

Stamp Office 308

Police, gaols, and constables 53,517

Crown forests. . . . . . . 1,380

Customs 13,413

Revenue services ....... 809

Ecclesiastical 15,382

Educational 21,644

Medical 11,310

Hospitals, lepers, and destitute ..... 23,025

Mounted frontier force 52,676

Border magistracy 8,713

Parliamentary expenses ...... 16,966

Pensions and retired allowances ..... 22,602

Conveyance of mails ....... 33,369

Convict expenditure 50,354

Pent ' 8,262

Transport 10,676

Works and buildings 9,881

Roads, streets, and bridges 19,384

Aborigines 11,178

Special payments. . 13,163

Immigration ........ 51

Railways 227

Loans refunded ........ 5,508

Interest on debt. ' 102,653

Miscellaneous expenses 33,298

Total expenditure. . 656,172

The colony had a public debt, at the end of 1868, of 1,101,650/. The debt dates from the year 1859, when it amounted to 80,000/. It rose to 368,400/. in I860; to 565,050/. in 1861; to 715,050/. in 1863 ; to 851,650/. in 1865 ; and to 1,101,650/. in 1867. The debt bears interest at the rate of 6 per cent., with the exception of the sum of 255,400/. at 5 per cent., and the whole is under pro- mise of repayment by instalments extending to the year 1900. — (Communication of the Governor to the Statesman's Year-book.)

Area and Population.

The Cape Colony was originally founded by the Dutch, under Van Kiebeek, about the year 1652 ; the Portuguese having before