44
5. The Births and Deaths Registration Ordinance (No. 21) consolidated and to some extent amended the law on this subject.
6. The Ordinances new to the Colony were the Hong Kong Dollar Loan Ordinance (No. 11), which empowered the Governor to raise a loan of $25,000,000 in bearer bonds at 3 per cent interest for various public works, the Colonial (Bahamas and Leeward Islands) Light Dues Ordinance (No. 15) which implemented an Order of His Majesty in Council dated the 17th December, 1931, under section 670 of the Merchant Shipping Act, 1894, by providing for levying in Hong Kong, colonial light dues in respect of twelve lighthouses and a buoy on or near the coasts mentioned, hitherto maintained mainly from light dues collected in Great Britain, Northern Ireland and the Irish Free State, the Government House and City Development Scheme Ordinance (No. 30), and the Sand Ordinance (No. 41).
7. The twenty-seven amending Ordinances covered a wide range of subjects, viz: Commissioners Powers (No. 1), Merchandise Marks (Nos. 2 and 38), Sunday Cargo Working (No. 4), Railways (Nos. 5 and 35), Merchant Shipping (Nos. 6 and 25), Opium (No. 7), Miscellaneous Licences (No. 9), Pensions (No. 12), Marriage (No. 13), Protection of Women and Girls (No. 14), Summary Offences (No. 17), Crown Counsel's Fees (No. 19), Coroner's Abolition (No. 22), Jury (No. 23), Official Signatures Fees (No. 24), Betting Duty (No. 26), Supreme Court (No. 27), Printers and Publishers (No. 28), Empire Preference (No. 31), Estate Duty (No. 32), Evidence (No. 33), Dangerous Goods (No. 34), Police Force (No. 36), and Criminal Procedure (No. 37).
8. Similarly, the subsidiary legislation covered a wide range of subjects, including Supreme Court rules, Marriage, Merchandise Marks, Merchant Shipping, Public Health and Buildings, Waterworks, Vehicles and Traffic Regulation, Ferries, Places of Public Entertainment Regulation, Post Office, Printers and Publishers, Bankruptcy rules, Liquors, Tobacco and Pensions.
# Chapter XV.
PUBLIC FINANCE & TAXATION.
The following tables show the Revenue and Expenditure for the five years 1930 to 1934 inclusive.
Revenue Expenditure Surplus Deficit 1930 $27,818,473 $28,119,646 $301,178 1931 1932 33,146,724 31,160,774 1,985,950 33,549,716 32,050,283 1,499,433 1933 1934 32,099,278 31,122,715 976,563 29,574,286 31,149,156 1,574,870