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LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL.
No. S. 203. The following Bills were read a first time at a Meeting of the Council held on the 15th August, 1918:-
A BILL
INTITULED
An Ordinance to authorize the Appropriation of a Supplementary Sum of Two million seven hundred and fifty-two thousand one hundred and fifty-two Dollars and fifty-eight Cents to defray the Charges of the year 1917.
WHEREAS it has become necessary to make further pro- vision for the public service of the Colony for the year 1917, in addition to the charge upon the revenue of the Colony for the service of the said year already provided
for :
Be it enacted by the Governor of Hongkong, with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council thereof, as follows:-
A sum of Two million seven hundred and fifty-two thousand one hundred and fifty-two Dollars and fifty-eight Cents is hereby charged upon the revenue of the Colony for the service of the year 1917, the said Sum so charged being expended as hereinafter specified; that is to say :-
Harbour Department, Miscellaneous Services, Military Expenditure, Public Works, Recurrent,
Public Works, Extraordinary,.......
Total,
15,122.82 2,648,503.16
982.87
20,108.45
67,435.28
.$ 2,752,152.58
Short title.
Modifica-
tions of I & 2 deo, A. c. 41, s. 14.
A BILL
INTITULED
An Ördinance to modify and to add to the provisions of the Copyright Act, 1911, in its application to the Colony of Hongkong.
BE it enacted by the Governor of Hongkong, with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council thereof, as follows:---
1. This Ordinance may be cited as the Copyright Or- dinance, 1918.
2. For the purpose of the application of section 14 of the Copyright Act, 1911, to the importation into this Colony of works made out of the Colony :-
(1) The Superintendent of Imports and Exports shall perform the duties and may exercise the powers thereby imposed on or given to the Commissioners of Customs and Excise of the United Kingdom.
(2) Regulations made by the Superintendent of Imports and Exports under that section shall require the approval of the Governor in Council. (3) Regulations made under that section may pro- vide that notices given to the Commissioners of Customs and Excise of the United Kingdom, if communicated by them to the Superintendent of Imports and Exports, shall be deemed to have been given by the owner of the copyright to the Superintendent of Imports and Exports.