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Hong Kong Annual Administration Reports, 1841-1941
COLONIAL REPORTS.-ANNUAL.
No. 14.—An Ordinance to apply a sum not exceeding two millions three hundred and forty-seven thousand, four hundred and eighty-one dollars to the public service of the year 1894.
No. 15.-An Ordinance to authorise the appropriation of a supplementary sum of two hundred and thirty-five thousand one hundred and eleven dollars and ninety-three cents to defray the charges of the year 1892.
No. 1 was passed for the purpose of enabling the Colony to raise any future loans that might be thought desirable, by Inscribed Stock, and to convert into such stock the existing loan which was raised by debentures.
No. 6 puts the Volunteer establishment on a more satisfactory footing, and enables the Government to raise a special force in the event of anticipated war.
No. 9 provides for the registration of dogs and dealing with them in cases of rabies.
No. 10 was passed to give a better status to the Po Leung Kuk, a Chinese Society, which is of the greatest assistance to the Registrar General in dealing with cases arising under the Women and Girls' Protection Ordinance of 1890.
Councils.
Mr. A. M. Thomson was appointed on the 9th June and Mr. E. Bowdler on the 9th November to seats on both Councils during the absence from the Colony of Mr. Lockhart, Registrar General, and Mr. Cooper, Director of Public Works, respectively.
Establishments.
Mr. F. H. May was appointed to be Captain Superintendent of Police in room of Major-General Gordon, deceased.
Pensions.
The amount paid in respect of pensions was $86,706.79 as compared with $67,086.54 in 1892.
The list was reduced during the latter half of the year by the death of Sir James Russell, whose pension amounted to $6,000 per annum, and increased by pensions granted as follows:-
J. A. Carvalho $2,368.00 J. M. A. Silva $2,528.00 M. Gutierrez $1,251.20 Sir Cecil C. Smith $1,916.66Page 125
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