L.S.
HONG KONG.
No. 40 OF 1939.
1 assent.
G. A. S. NORTHCOTE, Governor.
8th December, 1939.
An Ordinance to apply a sum not exceeding Forty-nine million seven hundred and six thousand seven hundred and eighty-seven Dollars to the Public Service of the and financial year beginning on the 1st January, 1940, ending on the 31st March, 1941, and also to apply an additional sum not exceeding Five hundred and fifty- nine thousand one hundred Dollars to the Waterworks Renewals and Improvements Fund for the service of that Fund in the said financial year.
WHEREAS the expenditure required for the service of the Colony for the financial year beginning on the 1st January, 1940, and ending on the 31st March, 1941 has, apart from Charges on account of Public Debt, been estimated at the sum of Forty-nine million seven hundred and six thousand seven hundred and eighty-seven Dollars to be met from the general revenues of the Colony, and an additional sum of Five hundred and fifty-nine thousand one hundred Dollars to be met from the Waterworks Renewals and Improvements Fund:
[8th December, 1939.]
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 1940-1941 Ordinance, 1939.
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2. A sum not exceeding Forty-nine million seven Appropria- hundred and six thousand seven hundred and eighty-seven general Dollars shall be and the same is hereby charged upon the revenues. revenue and other funds of the Colony for the service of the said financial year, and the said sum so charged may be expended as hereinafter specified, that is to say--
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