85.
2. The Appropriation Ordinance (No. 31) applied a sum not exceeding $26,641,787 to the public service for the year 1932, and Ordinance No. 14 appropriated a supplementary sum of $2,486,577.02 to defray the charges of the year 1930.
3. The two replacement Ordinances were the Census Ordinance (No. 4), which was based on the Census Act, 1920, and replaced Ordinance No. 2 of 1881, and the Bankruptcy Ordinance (No. 10), which was based on the Bankruptcy Act, 1914, and replaced Ordinance No. 7 of 1891.
4. Ordinance No. 9 incorporated the Procurator for the time being in the Colony of the Salesian Society and Ordinance No. 19 incorporated the trustees for the time being of the Hop Yat Tong Church of Christ Hong Kong. These Ordinances followed the usual lines adopted in such cases.
5. The Liquors Ordinance (No. 36) and the Tobacco Ordinance (No. 39) consolidated the Ordinances on those subjects.
6. The Ordinances new to the Colony were the Nurses Registration Ordinance (No. 1), based on the Nurses Registration Act, 1919, and the Betting Duty Ordinance (No. 4) which made provision for the taxation of bets on authorised totalisators or pari-mutuels and contributions or subscriptions towards authorised cash sweeps, the duty on the former being 3 per cent. and on the latter 5 per cent. of the amount paid, contributed or subscribed.
7. The thirty amending Ordinances, many of which were passed wholly or in part to authorise an increase in fees and rates charged so as to provide revenue to make up in some measure for the fall in the value of the silver dollar, covered a wide range of subjects such as Widows' and Orphans' Pensions (No. 2), Public Health (Nos. 3 and 18), Merchant Shipping (Nos. 5 and 11), Estate Duty (No. 6), Deportation (No. 7), Larceny (No. 8), Vaccination (No. 12), Legal Practitioners (No. 13), Summary Offences (No. 15), Rating (No. 16), Criminal Procedure (No. 17), Supreme Court (No. 20), Magistrates (No. 21), Official Signatures Fees (No. 22), Police Force (No. 23), Liquors (No. 24), Gunpowder and Fireworks (No. 25), Births and Deaths Registration (No. 26), Moneylenders (No. 27), Land Registration (No. 28), Stamps (No. 29), Peace Preservation (No. 30), Civil Procedure (No. 32), Arms and Ammunition (No. 33), Suitors Funds (No. 34), Full Court (No. 35), Public Revenue Protection (No. 37) and United Kingdom Patents (No. 38).
8. Similarly the subsidiary legislation covered a wide range of subjects including Post Office, Arms and Ammunition, Vehicles and Traffic, Merchant Shipping, Suppression of Piracy, Census, Opium, Public Revenue Protection, Tobacco, New Territories, Liquors, Suitors' Funds, Dangerous Drugs, Pilots, Dangerous Goods, Mercantile Marine Examinations, Licensing,