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LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL.
No. S. 269.-The following Bill was read a first time at a meeting of the Council held on the 16th September, 1936:
Short title.
Appropria- tion.
A BILL
[No. 31-10.9.36.-1.]
INTITULED
An Ordinance to apply a sum not exceeding Twenty-five million five hundred and eight thousand two hundred and sixty- nine Dollars to the Public Service of the year 1937.
WHEREAS the expenditure required for the service of this Colony for the year 1937 has, apart from the contribution to the Imperial Government in aid of Military Expenditure and Charges on account of Public Debt, been estimated at the sum of Twenty-five million five hundred and eight thousand two hundred and sixty-nine 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 for 1937 Ordinance, 1936.
2. A sum not exceeding Twenty-five million five hundred and eight thousand two hundred and sixty-nine Dollars shall be and the same is hereby charged upon the revenue and other funds of the Colony for the service of the year 1937, and the said sum so charged may be expended as hereinafter specified, that is to say :-
EXPENDITURE.
His Excellency the Governor
196,786
Colonial Secretary's Department and Legislature.
347,558
Secretariat for Chinese Affairs.
166,682
Treasury
292.474
Audit Department......
124,473
District Office, North.
90,742
District Office, South.
55,213
Post Office
$19.432
Wireless Telegraph Services
183,956
Imports and Exports Office
486,782
Harbour Department
1,136,235
Air Services
70,148
Carried forward...
$ 3,970,476