525
funds of the Colony for the service of the year 1921, and the said sum so charged may be expended as hereinafter specified, that is to say :-
EXPENDITURE.
Governor,
80,760
Cadet Service,
252,440
Colonial Secretary's Department and Legislature,
49,558
Do.,
Special Expenditure, -
400
Secretariat for Chinese Affairs,
19,904
Audit Department,
45,992
Treasury,
55,280
Do., Special Expenditure,
200
Harbour Master's Department,
239,421
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Do.,
Special Expenditure,
12,000
Imports and Exports Department,
845,843
Royal Observatory,
29,705
Do.,
Special Expenditure,
2,100
Miscellaneous Services,
633,442
Do.,
Special Expenditure,
15,000
Judicial and Legal Departments,
254,767
Do.,
Special Expenditure,
180
Police and Prison De partments,
1,672,918
Do.,
Special Expenditure, -
42,795
Medical Department,
368,094
Do.,
Special Expenditure,
700
Sanitary Department,
-
504,500
Do.,
Botanical and Forestry Department,
Special Expenditure,
58,650
61,394
Education,
605,073
Do.,
Special Expenditure,
181,580
Volunteer Defence Corps,
38,359
Public Works Department,
632,060
Do.,
Special Expenditure," -
450
Public Works, Recurrent,
840,600
Public Works, Extraordinary,
4,967,400
Pensions,
Post Office,
Kowloon-Canton Railway,
Special Expenditure,
Charitable Services,
292,817
515,998
382,310
312,900
66,572
Total,
A BILL
$14,084,662
INTITULED
An Ordinance to provide for the protection of
trees, shrubs and other plants.
Be it enacted by the Governor of Hongkong, with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council thereof, as follows:-
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1. This Ordinance may be cited as the Plants Ordi- Short title. nance, 1920.
2. (1.) It shall be lawful for the Governor in Council Power to to make such regulations as he shall think expedient make regula- for the purpose of protecting trees, shrubs, and other tions. plants from destruction, injury, or removal.
(2.) In any such regulations the onus of proof may be thrown upon the defendant in any case in which the Governor in Council may think proper.
(3.) All regulations made under this Ordinance shall be laid on the table of the Legislative Council at the first meeting thereof held after the publication in the Gazette of the making of such regulations, and if a resolution be passed at the first meeting of the Legisla- tive Council held after such regulations have been laid on the table of the said Council resolving that any such
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