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L.S.
HONG KONG.
No. 23 OF 1937.
I assent.
N. L. SMITH,
Officer Administering the Government.
22nd October, 1937.
An Ordinance to apply a sum not exceeding Twenty-six million three hundred and thirty-eight thousand three hundred and forty Dollars to the Public Service of the year 1938.
|22nd October, 1937.]
WHEREAS the expenditure required for the service of this Colony for the year 1938 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-six million three hundred and thirty-eight thousand three hundred and forty 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. for 1938 Ordinance, 1937.
2. A sum not exceeding Twenty-six million three Appropria hundred and thirty-eight thousand three hundred and forty tion. Dollars shall be and the same is hereby charged upon the revenue and other funds of the Colony for the service of the year 1938, and the said sum so charged may be expended as hereinafter specified, that is to say:-
His Excellency the Governor
EXPENDITURE.
$
181,897
Colonial Secretary's Department and Legislature.
308,038
Secretariat for Chinese Affairs
146,094
Treasury
322,901
Audit Department
125,443
District Office, North
75,788
District Office, South
53,506
Post Office
820,546
Radio Traffic Office
Wireless
Imports and Exports Office
Harbour Department
Air Services
183,065
279,929
496,314
1,314,654
Carried forward
120,271
$ 4,428,446
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