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(signed) J. B.
(Irne Copy)
offy:
anthicier
Colonial secretary.
Title.
Preamble.
HONGKONG.
ANNO DECIMO SEPTIMO VICTORIA REGINÆ.
No. 1 of 1854.
BY The Honorable Lieutenant-Colonel William Caine, Lieutenant-Governor Administering the Government of the Colony of Hongkong, and its Dependencies, with the advice of the Legislative Council of Hongkong.
AN ORDINANCE TO RAISE AN ADDITIONAL POLICE RATE.
[30th May, 1854.]
WHEREAS it is necessary that for a temporary period an Auxiliary Police Force should be kept on foot and maintained in this Colony for the preservation of the Lives and Property of the Inhabitants thereof :-
A rate of Three 1. Be it therefore enacted and ordained by the Honorable the Lieutenant-Gov. per cent to be levi- ernor Administering the Government of Hongkong, with the advice of the Legis- ed forthwith for the lative Council thereof, That to defray the expenses of raising and maintaining an maintenance of an Auxiliary Police Force in this Colony in addition to the ordinary Police Rate Auxiliary Police.
assessed for the current year a rate be forth with levied of Three per cent on the gross amount of the property included in the Police Rate Assessment, and that the Amount so levied be applied by the Officer Administering the Government of the Colony for the time being in and about the maintenance of the Auxiliary Police Force at his discretion.
An additional II. That if at the expiration of Three months from the passing of this Ordinance rate of Three per the Officer Administering the Government of this Colony for the time being shall cent may be levied deem it necessary for the express purposes of this Ordinance and for no other that expiration of three a like sum of Three per cent should be levied, it shall be lawful for such Officer months from the to cause such further sum to be levied.
if needed at the
dinance.
passing of this Or. III. That should it so happen that it be found unnecessary to expend all the Surplus to be sums of money raised under this Ordinance for the purposes of the Auxiliary Police applied to dimi. Force and there remain a Balance unapplied of such monies such Balance shall be nish future Police expended solely in diminishing Police Rates hereafter to be raised in this Colony
and in no other manner whatsoever.
Rates.
Rate to be levied
IV. That the Police Rate hereby ordered to be levied shall be forthwith levied in conformity with and enforced in the manner provided by the Ordinance No. 2 of 1845 for the Ordinance No. 2 levying and enforcement of the Annual Assessed Police Rate.
of 1845.
Passed the Legislative Council of Hongkong,
this 30th Day of May, 1854.
L. D'ALMADA E CASTRO,
Clerk of Councils.
W. CAINE.
Sathunde & Cartof
Clerk of Councils.
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