Enclosure No. 1.
A BILL
495
INTITULED
An Ordinance to apply a sum not exceeding Twenty-three million three hundred and sixty-five thousand three hundred and thirty- five Dollars to the Public Service of the year 1931.
WHEREAS the expenditure required for the service of this Colony for the year 1931 has, apart from the contribution to the Imperial Government in aid of Military Expenditure and Charges on account of Public Debt, been estimated at the sum of Twenty-three million three hundred and sixty-five thousand three hundred and thirty-five Dollars :
Be it enacted by the Governor of Hong Kong, with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council thereof, as follows:-
1. This Ordinance may be cited as the Appropriation Short title. Ordinance for 1931.
2. A sum not exceeding Twenty-three million three hundred and sixty-five thousand three hundred and thirty-five Dollars shall be and the same is hereby charged upon the revenue and other funds of the Colony for the service of the year 1931, and the said sum so charged may be expended as hereinafter speci- fied, that is to say :-
EXPENDITURE.
His Excellency the Governor
..$
155,890
Cadet Service.....
566,221
Senior Clerical and Accounting Staff.
334,113
Junior Clerical Service.....
916,050
Colonial Secretary's Department and
Legislature.....
60,625
Secretariat for Chinese Affairs...
19,629
Treasury.....
54,635
Audit Department.....
72,604
District Office, North
24,317
District Office, South
12,340
Post Office ...
408,405
Wireless Telegraph Services
149,961
Imports and Exports Office.....
871,194
Harbour Department
1,164,394
Air Services
154,568
Royal Observatory
71,012
Fire Brigade
326,479
Supreme Court
173,354
Attorney General
47,226
Crown Solicitor's Office
50,322
Official Receiver
18,631
Land Office
36,754
Magistracy, Hong Kong
2,399
Magistracy, Kowloon
....
2,190
Police Force
2,710,962
Prisons Department
713,369
Medical Department
1,446,585
Sanitary Department
954,276
Botanical and Forestry Department...
119,587
Education Department.
1,739,708
Public Works Department
2,038,928
Public Works, Recurrent
1,536,150
Public Works, Extraordinary
Kowloon-Canton Railway..
Volunteer Defence Corps
Miscellaneous Services
Charitable Services Pensions
2,500,000
947,547
103,660
1,490,955
142,295
1,228.000
TOTAL..... $ 23,365,335