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6. The twenty-three amending Ordinances covered a wide range of subjects, viz:- Asylums (No. 1), Public Health and Buildings (No. 2), Tobacco (No. 5), Tung Wah Hospital (No. 6), Boarding House (No. 9), Rating (No. 10), Liquors (No. 11), Telephone (No. 14), Peak Tramway (No. 17), Magistrates (No. 18), Stamp (No. 20), Jury (No. 21), Immigration and Passports (No. 28), Companies (No. 24), Merchant Shipping (No. 28), Pensions (No. 29), Crown Solicitors (No. 31), Summary Offences (No. 36), Estate Duty, and New Territories Regulation (No. 38), Defence Contribution (No. 43), Volunteer Amendment (No. 45), Probates (No. 46), Ferries (No. 52).
Ordinance No. 38 does not come into operation until 1st January 1937.
7. Similarly the subsidiary legislation covered a wide range of subjects including: - Public Places Regulation, Foreign Recruiting, Marriage, Merchant Shipping, Civil Procedure, Public Health and Buildings, Vehicles and Traffic Regulation, Importation and Exportation, Post Office, Dogs, Motor Spirit, Nurses Registration, Liquors, Juvenile Offenders, Industrial and Reformatory Schools, Pensions, Factories and Workshops, Police Force, Prisons, Cremation, Adulterated Food and Drugs, Buildings, Dangerous Drugs, Air Navigation.
8. The Ordinances new to the Colony were the Tokens Ordinance (No. 26), the Lunacy (Payment of Public Allowances) (No. 27), False Personation (No. 34), Dollar Currency Notes (No. 42) and Currency (No. 54). Of these Ordinances No. 26 prohibited the making, issuing and circulating of metal tokens in the Colony, Ordinance No. 27 regulated the manner of payment of emoluments, pensions, etc., to persons certified mentally incapable of managing their affairs, Ordinance No. 34 provided penalties for persons convicted of false personation, Ordinance No. 42 empowered the Treasurer to issue one-dollar currency notes in the Colony, and Ordinance No. 54 provided for the establishment and management of an Exchange Fund.
Chapter XV.
PUBLIC FINANCE & TAXATION.
The following tables show the Revenue and Expenditure for the five years 1931 to 1935 inclusive.
Revenue Expenditure Surplus Deficit 1931 $33,146,724 $31,160,774 $1,985,950 1932 33,549,716 32,050,283 1,499,433 1933 32,099,278 31,122,715 976,563 1934 29,574,286 31,149,156 $1,574,870 1935 28,430,550 28,291,636 138,914