748 THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 11TH SEPTEMBER, 1897.
A BILL
ENTITLED
An Ordinance to authorise the Appropriation
of a Supplementary Sum of Three hundred and Forty-one thousand and Twenty-five Dollars and Thirty-seven Cents to defray the Charges of the Year 1896.
WHEREAS it has become necessary to make further pro- vision for the public service of the Colony for the year 1896, in addition to the charge upon the revenue and other funds 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:-
1. A sum of Three hundred and Forty-one thousand and Twenty-five Dollars and Thirty-seven Cents is bereby charged upon the revenue and other funds of the Colony for the service of the year 1896, the said sum so charged being expended as hereinafter specified; that is to say :- Pensions,
$ 15,054.71
Governor and Legislature,
223.19
Audit Department,
298.14
Treasury,
1,763.15
Post Office,
3,101.17
Botanical and Afforestation Department,
661.84
Legal Departments,
9,714.50
Medical Departments,-
16,048.19
Magistracy,
3,918.27
Police,
8,941.71
Gaol,
1,432.13
Sanitary Department,-
7,936.45
Charitable Allowances,
567.99
Transport,-
1,254.40
Miscellaneous Services,
100,812.78
Military Expenditure,
82,913.45
Public Works Annual Recurrent Expenditure,
24,047.79
Ordinary Expenditure,
$278,689,86
Extraordinary Public Works, -
62,335,51
Total,
$341,025.37
Short title,
Definitions.
A BILL
ENTITLED
An Ordinance to prevent the Spread of Infectious Disease arising from the consumption of con- taminated or unwholesome milk.
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 Infected Milk Ordinance, 1897.
2. In this Ordinance, unless the context otherwise re- quires-
"Dairy" shall include any farm, farm-house, cowshed, milk-store, milk-shop, or other place from which milk is supplied or in which milk is kept for purposes of sale.
"Dairyman" shall include any cowkeeper, purveyor of milk, or occupier of a dairy, and, in cases where a dairy is owned by a Corporation or Company, the Secretary or other person actually managing such dairy.
"Infectious Disease" shall mean and include any of the following diseases :-Small-pox, Bubonic Plague, Cholera, Choleraic Diarrhoea, Diphtheria, Searlet Fever, Typhus Fever, Enteric Fever, Relapsing Fever, Measles and Whooping Cough. "Medical Officer of Health" shall include any person duly authorised by the Governor to act temporarily as Medical Officer of Health, and any person duly appointed as Assistant Medical Officer of Health. "Colonial Veterinary Surgeon" shall include any per- son duly authorised by the Governor to act tempo- rarily as Colonial Veterinary Surgeon,