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2.

Section 3 of the principal

Ordinance is amended by the addition of

the crds folloring, that is to say:-

"Provided that the charges for working

expenses and maintenance of any railways

telephones or other productive undertakings

of a similar character which may here-

after be established and for interest und

sinking fund on any sums creted for the

construction of such railways telephones

or undertakings shall be deducted from

the gross receipts of such railways telephones

Amendment of section

3 of the principal Ordin

the British sex hind

the Kasloon. Canton "railway & of

raised

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of which has been or hereafter may

be defrayed out of the Revenue of the

Colony and not by means of a loan there

shall be deducted annually from the gross

receipts of such rilways telephones or

other undertakings during a period of fifty

years a sum equal to four per cent on the

capital expenditure incurred in the

establishment of such railways belephones or

other undertakings and the percentage shall

be struck on the net receipts if any after

deducting the said sum of four per cent.

or undertakings respectively and the per-

centage struck on the net receipts only if

any in each ease."

Provided so that from and after the

first day of January 1910 in the case of

any railways, telephones or other productive

undertakings the cost of the construction

of

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