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7.-PUBLIC WORKS.
The expenditure under this head was $148,643.52 on account of Annually Recurrent Works, and $16,828.99 (exclusive of $338,315.96 chargeable against the Loan raised during the year) on account of Extraordinary Public Works.
8.--LEGISLATION.
The following Ordinances were passed during the year:
No. 1.-An Ordinance to declare the terms and conditions applicable to Loans authorised to be raised by the Government of Hongkong and to provide for the creation of Inscribed Stock.
No. 2. An Ordinance for raising the sum of £200,000 by Loan for the purpose of defray-
ing the cost of certain Public Works.
No. 3.--An Ordinance to amend The Marriage Ordinance, 1875.
No. 4.An Ordinance to amend The Medical Registration Ordinance, 1884.
No. 5.-An Ordinance to amend The Hongkong Code of Civil Procedure.
No. 6. An Ordinance to provide for the establishment of a Volunteer Force and to empower the Governor to raise a special force of Coast Defence Volunteers in the event of anticipated war.
No. 7.-An Ordinance to provide means for ascertaining the amounts to be paid by way of compensation in respect of the Wharves and Piers along the line of the Praya Reclamation, to fix the periods for the payment thereof and for other purposes in connection therewith.
No. 8.-An Ordinance for the Naturalization of MEYER FREDERICKS.
No. 9.-An Ordinance to make provision for regulating the keeping of dogs and for the
prevention of the importation and spread of rabies.
No. 10. An Ordinance for the establishment and incorporation of the Chinese Society for the prevention of kidnapping and for the protection of Women and Children commonly known as "The Pó Léung Kuk."
No. 11.-An Ordinance for the Incorporation of the Trustees of the Hongkong and South
China Masonic Benevolence Fund.
No. 12.-An Ordinance concerning Statutory Declarations.
No. 13.-An Ordinance for the suppression of the pernicious practice of injecting prepara-
tions of Morphine by unqualified persons.
No. 14.--An Ordinance to apply a sum not exceeding Two Millions Three Hundred and Forty-seven thousand, Four hundred and Eighty-one Dollars to the Public Service of the Year 1894.
No. 15.-An Ordinance to authorise the Appropriation of a Supplementary Sum of Two hundred and Thirty-five thousand One hundred and Eleven Dollars and Ninety- three Cents to defray the Charges of the Year 1892.
9.-COUNCILS AND ASSEMBLIES,
Mr. A. M. THOMSON and Mr. E. BOWDLER were appointed provisionally to seats on both Councils during the absence from the Colony of Mr. LOCKHART, Registrar General, and Mr. COOPER, Director of Public Works, respectively.
Sanitary Board.--Mr. RENNIE was appointed to be Acting Secretary in the place of Mr. MCCALLUM absent from the Colony on leave.
Board of Examiners.-Dr. Ho KAI was appointed a Member in succession to Mr. WONG SHING, retired.