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LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL.
No. S. 77. The following Bills were read a first time at a meeting of the Council held on the 20th February, 1941:
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[No. 4-11.2.41.-1.]
[C.S.O. 48/136/40.]
A BILL
Short title.
Appropria- tion from general
revenues.
INTITULED
An Ordinance to apply a sum not exceeding Fifty-two million four hundred and eighty-three thousand two hundred and ninety-four Dollars to the Public Service of the financial year beginning on the 1st April, 1941, and ending on the 31st March, 1942, and also to apply an additional sum not exceeding Eight hundred and thirty-two thousand Dollars to the Waterworks Renewals and Improvements Fund for the service of that Fund in the said financial year.
WHEREAS the expenditure required for the service of the Colony for the financial year beginning on the 1st April, 1941, and ending on the 31st March, 1942 has, apart from Charges on account of Public Debt and Defence Contribution, been estimated at the sum of Fifty-two million four hundred and eighty-three thousand two hundred and ninety-four Dollars to be met from the general revenues of the Colony, and an additional sum of Eight hundred and thirty-two thousand Dollars to be met from the Waterworks Renewals and Improve- ments Fund:
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 1941-1942 Ordinance, 1941.
2. A sum not exceeding Fifty-two million four hundred and eighty-three thousand two hundred and ninety-four Dollars shall be and the same is hereby charged upon the revenue and other funds of the Colony for the service of the said financial year, and the said sum so charged may be expended as hereinafter specified, that is to say--
EXPENDITURE
His Excellency the Governor
Colonial Secretary's Office and Legislature.
Audit Department
Botanical and Forestry
Agriculture
Charitable Services
Volunteer Defence Corps
Naval Volunteer Force
Air Raid Precautions
Carried forward.......
.8 182,747
308,275
111,135
184,901
119,286
619,648
150,000
40,000
286,599
$ 2,002,591
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