2.
The usual returns will be
sent when complete.
I have the honour to be,
dir
Your Most Obedient
humble Servant,
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Governor and Commanda in Chief_
No. 5 OF 1878.
Au Ordinance enacted by the Governor of Hongkong, Tate,
with the advice of the Legislative Council thereof, to apply a sum not exceeding Seven hundred and seventy-nine thousand Dollars to the Public Service of the Year 1879.
W
[21st December, 1878.]
THEREAS the expenditure required for the service of this Preamide
Colony for the year 1879 has been estimated at the sum
of seven hundred and seventy-eight thousand four hundred and one dollars and thirty-eight cents: Be it enacted by the Governor of Hongkong, with the advice of the Legislative Council thereof,
as follows :-
I. A sum not exceeding seven hundred and seventy-nine thou- Estimares, sand dollars shall be, and the same is hereby charged upon the 1879. revenue of this Colony for the service of the year 1870, and the said sum so charged shall be expended as hereinafter specified; that is to say~-
Governor,
Colonial Secretary,- Colonial Treasurer,- Anditor General, Clerk of Councils, Surveyor General,
ESTABLISHMENTS.
$ c.
2,948.00
5,936.00
3,804.00
16,470.00
100.00
27,902.00
Government Gardens,
4,652.80
Postmaster General,
30,600.00
Registrar General, -
11,866.00
Harbour Master,
27,890.00
Lighthouses,
7,424.00
Collector of Stamp Revenue,
4,162.00
Judicial,
22,744.00
Registrar of Companies,
102.00
Ecclesiastical,
1,158.00
Educational,
23,634,00
Medical,
15,876.00
Police Magistrates,-
6,304,00
Police,
145,858.80
Gaol,
21,552.00
Fire Brigade,
8,626.00
Total Establishments, $389,758.60
SERVICES EXCLUSIVE OF ESTABLISHMENTS,
Colonial Treasurer,
1,500.00
Surveyor General, -
1,800.00
Postmaster General,
90,734.78
Registrar General, Judicial, Educational,
25.00
200.00
8,000.00
Carried forward,
8422,078.38