HONG KONG
No. 26 of 1940.
I assent.
Oficer Administering the Government,
30th August, 1940.
An Ordinance to authorize the Appropriation of a Supple- mentary sum of two million four hundred and eighty- four thousand nine hundred and ninety-one dollars and forty-seven cents to defray the charges of the year 1939 and also to appropriate a sum of eighty thousand three hundred and thirty-one dollars and twenty-five cents from the Waterworks Renewals and Improvements Fund in the said year.
WHEREAS it has become necessary to make further provision for the public service of the Colony for the year 1939 in addition to the charge upon the revenue of the Colony for the service of the said year already provided for, and also to make provision for expenditure from the Waterworks Renewals and Improvements Fund in the said year:
(30th August, 1940.]
Be it enacted by the Governor of Hong Kong, with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council thereof, as follows:
1. This Ordinance may be cited as the (1989 Supple- Short title. mentary) Appropriation Ordinance, 1940.
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2. A sum of two million four hundred and eighty-four Appropria- thousand nine hundred and ninety-one dollars and forty-seven guneral cents is hereby charged upon the revenue of the Colony for veqnes, the service of the year 1939, the sum so charged being expended as hereinafter specified; that is to say:-
Charitable Services
Defence
(4) Hong Kong Volunteer Defence Corps. (b) Hong Kong Naval Volunteer Force... (c) Air Raid Precautions
Fire Brigade
Imports and Exports Office
Legal Departments
Magistracy, Kowloon
Miscellaneous Services
Police Force
Public Works Department and Water Works:-
(b) Water Works
Royal Observatory
Sanitary Department
Secretariat for Chinese Affairs
Stores Department
Public Works Extraordinary
$ 725,278.00
312,111.22
148.711.91
508,291.65
5,254.91
$3,098.72
3,267.65
4,191.10
3,432.99
137,937.90
*
5,147.14
18,988.29
34,996.29
31,604.24
383,972.06
128,861.51
$2.484,991.47