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Amendment made by the Urban Council under section 5 of the Public Health (Food) Ordinance, 1935, Ordinance No. 13 of 1935, to the by-laws under the heading "Markets" in the Schedule to that Ordinance, dated 19th December, 1939, and approved by the Legislative Council on 7th March, 1940.
Additional by-law made by the Urban Council under section 3 of the Public Health (Sanitation) Ordinance, 1935, Ordinance No. 15 of 1935, under the heading "Dangerous and Offensive Trades" in Schedule A to that Ordinance, dated 30th January, 1940, and approved by the Legislative Council on 7th March, 1940.
The Trading with the Enemy (Specified Persons) (Amendment) (No. 3) Order, 1940, made by the Governor, with the prior approval of the Secretary of State, under section 3 (2) of the Trading with the Enemy Ordinance, 1914, Ordinance No. 25 of 1914, as amended by regulation 2 of the Trading with the Enemy Ordinance, 1914, Amendment Regulations, 1939, dated 7th March, 1940.
Order made by the Controller of Food under the Defence Regulations, 1939, with the consent of the Governor, fixing the standard prices of Golden Butterfly Thick Cream, dated 8th March, 1940.
Order made by the Postmaster General under the Defence Regulations, 1939, prohibiting the use of wireless transmitting apparatus, dated 4th March, 1940.
WAR REVENUE BILL, 1940.
THE FINANCIAL SECRETARY moved the first reading of a Bill intituled "An Ordinance to impose war taxes and to regulate the Collection thereof." He said: Your Excellency,-When in connection with the budget for the current financial year the proposal was mooted in this Council to impose new taxation to raise additional revenue for war purposes during the present emergency, the form of taxation contemplated by Government met with general disapproval from the Unofficial Members of this Council, although there was a corresponding unanimity in agreeing that additional revenue should be raised to enable this Colony as a part, however small, of the Empire to bear its share of the expenditure incurred in furthering the common cause. That unanimity was fittingly expressed at the meeting of this Council last Thursday by the Honourable Senior Unofficial Member in supporting the resolution that a Bill on the lines of that drafted by the War Revenue Committee should be introduced.
That very representative Committee, which included several Unofficial Members of this Council, was appointed by Your Excellency with terms of reference which finally became
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