Expenditures of the Russo-Japanese war / by Gotaro Ogawa.

92 EXPENDITURES OF THE RUSSO-JAPANESE WAR
REVENUE a
Estimated Actual Increase
Special account funds:
Funds for maintenance of warships Yen Yen Yen
and torpedo boats........... 32,407,894 38,719,871 6,3I,977
Distress relief funds............. 12,30o,ooo 12,310,000....
Education funds................ 10,540,000 10,540,000....
Forestry funds.................. 4,000,000 4,000,000....
Miscellaneous................... 8,ooo,ooo 8,ooo,ooo....
Total........................ 67,257,894 73,569,87I 6,3 1,977
War-funds contributions........... 1,500,000 2,331,176 831,176
Sales of Government property........... 8,875,115 18,875,115
Transportation earnings................ 9,908,784 9,908,784
Special revenues...................... 3,516,325 3,516,325
Miscellaneous revenue............. 500,000 I6,IO7,52I 15,607,521
Grand total................. 69,257,894 124,308,792 55,050,898
a The surplus of the special account funds over the estimated amount was included in the funds
for maintenance of warships and torpedo boats, thus passing the same amount of annual account surplus to the special account of the extraordinary military expenditures. The advance to the special
account of the military expenditures from the general account was reduced by the same amount at
the same time.
adopted also regarding prearranged expenditures. In the
ordinary expenditure, redemption of domestic bonds was postponed, together with no small curtailment of the communication and other expenses. In the extraordinary expenditure,
rigid economy or postponement was effected with regard to
railway construction and improvement expenses, public
works expenses, conservancy expenses, Hokkaido colonization
expenses, subsidy to the expenditure for Formosa, construction expenses for schools, prisons, etc., and various other items
of expenditure. As a result, on the other hand, of the fact
that the Army and Navy were mobilized through the war and
their ordinary expenditures were transferred to the war-time
expenditures, there remained a large surplus from the Army
and Navy estimates of ordinary expenditure; there was also
no small surplus from the expenses for the steamship-line
expansion and navigation encouragement. The details are
as shown in the following table.
It will be seen that the amounts economized or postponed
out of the estimated expenditures totaled some 126,580,000