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SIR,
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No 191
HONG KONG
WAR OFFICE to COLONIAL OFFICE
(Received June 19, 1911.)
[Answered by No 193.]
War Office. London, S.W., 17th June, 1911. Wrrn reference to your letter. 14924/1911, dated 18th May, 1911.* regarding the assessment to military contribution of the net receipts from the British section of the Canton Kowloon Railway. I am commanded by the Army Council to enclose a copy of a letter which has this day been addressed to the Treasury on the subject.
Enclosure in No 191
I am, &c.,
E. W. D WARD.
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My Lords will be glad, however, to be favoured with an opportunity of con- sidering the proposed amendments to the Contribution Ordinance before they are finally enacted
I am,
&c.,
G. H. MURRAY.
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SIR,
No. 193.
HONG KONG.
COLONIAL OFFICE to WAR OFFICE AND TREASURY.
Answered by Nos. 195 and 197.j
Downing Street, 13 July, 1911. WITH reference to your letter [of the 17th June*] [of the 26th Junet], I am directed by Mr Secretary Harcourt to transmit to you, for the consideration of the [Army Council] [Lords Commissioners of the Treasury], the accompanying draft of an Ordinance to amend the Hong Kong Defence Contribution Ordinance, 1901.
2. It will be observed that this Ordinance follows the lines of the Straits Settle- ments Ordinances XXI of 1899 and XVIII of 1904.
3.
A similar letter has been addressed to the [Treasury] [War Office]
PUBLIC RECORD OFFICE
Reference :-
C.O. 882
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PUBLIC RECORD OFFICE, LONDON
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War Office, 17th June, 1911. SIR,
Wirя reference to your letter dated 27th May, 1911, regarding the Hong Kong military contribution, I am commanded by the Army Council to acquaint you for the information of the Lords Commissioners of His Majesty's Treasury that they have no objection to the application of the principle of assessment of net receipts to the revenue derived from the newly opened British section of the Canton-Kowloon Railway.
The percentage at which the contribution is calculated having been fixed at time when there were no Government railways, no question arises of its revision. With reference to the third paragraph of the Colonial Office letter, the Army Council understand that the capital for the construction of the British section of the Canton-Kowloon Railway has been provided by means of a loan and not from ordinary revenues.
I am to add that the Army Council would be glad to have an opportunity of nsidering the proposed amendments to the Contribution Ordinance before they are finally sanctioned.
A copy of this letter has been sent to the Colonial Office.
The Secretary.
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SIR,
The Treasury.
No. 192.
HONG KONG.
I am, &c.,
E. W. D. WARD.
TREASURY to COLONIAL OFFICE.
(Received June 27, 1911.)
[Answered by No 193.]
Treasury Chambers, 26th June, 1911. In reply to Mr. Fiddes's letter of the 18th ultimo (14924/1911),* I am directed by the Lords Commissioners of His Majesty's Treasury to request you to inform Mr. Secretary Harcourt that they concur in his proposal to instruct the Governor of Hong Kong to introduce into the Legislative Council a Bill amending the Defence Contribution Ordinance, 1901, with a view to providing for the assessment of the net receipts of the British section of the Canton-Kowloon Railway to military contri- bution on the same principles as are in force in the other Eastern Colonies.
• No. 189.
(Draft.)
Enclosure in No. 193.
HONG KONG.
ORDINANCE No.
OF 1911.
I am, &c..
G. V. FIDDES.
An Ordinance to amend The Defence Contribution Ordinance, 1901.
Be it enacted by the Governor of Hong Kong, with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council thereof, as follows:-
Short title.
Reprints.
The Defence 1. This Ordinance may be cited as Contribution Ordinance, 1901, Amendment Ordinance,
1911, and shall be read and construed as one with the Defence Contribution Ordi- nance 1901 (hereinafter called the principal Ordinance). Any copy of the principal Ordinance printed after the commencement of this Ordinance may be printed with the amendments, additions and alterations required by this Ordinance.
2. Section 3 of the principal Ordinance is amended Amendment of Section 3 by the addition of the words following, that is to
of the principal Ordinance.
say:
"Provided that the charges for working expenses and maintenance of the Kowloon-Canton Railway, and of any railways, telephones or other pro- ductive undertakings of a similar character which may hereafter be estab- lished, and for interest and sinking fund on any sums raised by loan and utilized for the construction of such railways, telephones, or undertakings, shall be deducted from the gross receipts of such railways, telephones, or under- takings, respectively, and the percentage struck on the net receipts only if any in each case.
"Provided also that from and after the first day of January, 1911, in the case of any railways, telephones, or other productive undertakings the cost of the construction of which has been or hereafter may be defrayed out of the revenue of the Colony and not by means of a loan; there shall be deducted annually from the gross receipts of such railways, telephones, or other undertakings, during a period of 50 years, a sum equal to 4 per cent. on the capital expenditure incurred in the establishment of such railways, tele- phones, or other undertakings, and the percentage shall be struck on the net receipts if any after deducting the said sum of 4 per cent."
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