606
LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL.
No. S. 276.-The following Bill was read a first time at a meeting of the Council held on the 15th October, 1926:-
Short title.
[No. 15:-6.10.26–1.]
A BILL
INTITULED
An Ordinance to apply a sum not exceeding Seventeen million seven hundred and forty- one thousand five hundred and forty-three Dollars to the Public Service of the year 1927.
WHEREAS the expenditure required for the service of this Colony for the year 1927 has, apart from the contri- bution to the Imperial Government in aid of Military Expenditure and Charges on account of Public Debt, been estimated at the sum of Seventeen million seven hundred and forty-one thousand five hundred and forty- three Dollars :
BE it enacted by the Governor of Hong Kong, with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council thereof, as follows:-
1. This Ordinance may be cited as the Appropriation Ordinance for 1927.
2. A sum not exceeding Seventeen million seven hundred and forty-one thousand five hundred and forty- three Dollars shall be and the same is hereby charged upon the revenue and other funds of the Colony for the service of the year 1927, and the said sum so charged may be expended as hereinafter specified, that
say:-
EXPENDITURE.
His Excellency the Governor,
Cadet Service,
Senior Clerical and Accounting Staff
Junior Clerical Service,
Colonial Secretary's
Legislature, -
Department
Secretariat for Chinese Affairs;
Treasury,
Audit Department,
District Office, North,
to
101,319
319,200
155,248
733,116
and
46,275
11,729
15,264
44,092
20,905
District Office, South,
10,181
Post Office,
155,321
Imports and Exports Department,
855,767
Harbour Master's Department, -
737,146:
Royal Observatory,
35,275
Fire Brigade,
230,799
Supreme Court,
149,777
Attorney General,
22,538
Crown Solicitor's Office,
38,704
Official Receiver,
9,546
Land Registry,
Police Force,
23,633
Magistracy, Hong Kong,
2,206
Magistracy, Kowloon,
2,248
1,826,592
Prisons Department,
512,167
Medical Department,
781,991
Sanitary Department,
695,363
Botanical and Forestry Department,
98,320
Education Department,
1,163,943
Public Works Department,
1,492,281
Public Works, Recurrent,
1,540,400
Public Works, Extraordinary,
3,706,264
Kowloon-Canton Railway,
Volunteer Defence Corps,
650,033
61,290
Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve,
40,000
Miscellaneous Services,
677,223
Charitable Services,
Pensions,
96,475 675,903
TOTAL,
-$ 17,741,543