LE
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Enclosure 1417
2.
ATTORNEY GENERAL'S CHAMBERS,
Hongkong hh 23. 1917,
....................of 1917.
REPORT ON ORDINANCE No..........................
528
I have examined the accompanying Ordinance intituled an
Ordinance to provide for a temporary increase in the rates for the
special purpose of increasing the contributions of the Colony to His
Majesty's Government towards the expenses of the present war,
and I 8111
of opinion that the Ordinance is one which is not contrary to the
Governor's Instructions.
The object of this Ordinance is to impose a special war rate
of 7%, in addition to the ordinary rates, for the purpose of providing
an additional contribution to be paid by the Colony to His Majesty's
Government towards the expenses of the war.
Section 3 provides that this special war rate shall cease to be
the
payable at the end of quarter during which the present war shall
have come to an end,