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Biannual Finance Report Shows Rising Debt and Interest Costs
The report highlights inter bureau variances in expenditures such as Water Works. It notes rising bonded debt while interest payments from 1894 to 1897 total 211,571, 251,620, 236,459, 243,492. It discusses coinage proposals, old silver certificates, and a plan to consolidate debt into a single bond issue with foreign market potential and public tenders if not taken locally. It also reports Postal Savings Bank deposits increasing to 4,488,881.62 and flags eight thousand Chinese laborer deposits as a concern for immigration policy.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bureau of Water Works
Treasury
Postal Savings Bank
Caton
Commissioners of Public Lands