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(2) Sterling Salaries Conversion Ordinance (No. 24). (3) Public Officers (Change of Style) (No. 25).
(4) Law Revision Ordinance (No. 27).
Ordinance No. 21 provisionally authorised the Director of Public Works to construct a pier projecting into the Harbour and to lay two additional cross-Harbour pipe lines; No. 24, while repealing the Hong Kong Government Service (Levy on Salaries) Ordinance, 1937 (No. 2), made provision for converting the sterling salaries of Government officers for the year 1938 at a rate similar to the rate applicable in 1937; No. 25 changed the style of Inspector General of Police and Deputy Inspector General of Police and Police Probationer to Commissioner of Police, Deputy Commissioner of Police and Police Cadet respectively and authorised the Legislative Council by resolution to make additional alterations in the style of public officers at any time; Ordinance No. 27 gave effect to certain amendments found necessary in the preparation of the revised Ordinances (1937 edition).
8. The subordinate legislation covered a wide range of subjects including:
Air Navigation, Adulterated Food and Drugs, Asiatic Emigration Boarding House, Betting Duty, Births and Deaths Registration, Buildings, Cremation, Crown Rents (Apportionment), Dangerous Drugs, Defences (Firing Areas), Dentistry, Emergency Regulations (Cholera), Ferries, Forestry, Hawkers, Hong Kong (Coinage), Lighting Control, Liquors, Marriage, Merchant Shipping, Midwives, Naval Volunteer, New Territories Public Health (Sanitation), Nursing and Maternity Homes, Registration, Public Health (Animals and Birds), Pensions, Pharmacy and Poisons, Places of Public Entertainment, Pleasure Grounds and Bathing Places, Post Office, Prisons, Public Health (Food), Public Health (Sanitation), Quarantine and Prevention of Disease, Rating, Registration of Imports and Exports, Rope Company's Tramway, Telecommunication, Tramways, Vaccination, Vehicles and Traffic, Volunteer and Watchmen.
# Chapter XV
## PUBLIC FINANCE & TAXATION
The following tables show the Revenue and Expenditure for the five years 1933 to 1937 inclusive.
Year Revenue Expenditure Surplus Deficit 1933 $32,099,278 $31,122,715 $976,563 1934 $31,149,156 $29,574,286 $1,574,870 1935 $28,430,550 $28,291,636 $138,914 1936 $30,042,984 $29,513,520 $529,464 1937 $33,196,368 $32,111,222 $1,085,1461
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(2) Sterling Salaries Conversion Ordinance (No. 24). (3) Public Officers (Change of Style) (No. 25).
(4) Law Revision Ordinance (No. 27).
Ordinance No. 21 provisionally authorised the Director of Public Works to construct a pier projecting into the Harbour and to lay two additional cross-Harbour pipe lines; No. 24, while repealing the Hong Kong Government Service (Levy on Salaries) Ordinance, 1937 (No. 2), made provision for converting the ster- ling salaries of Government officers for the year 1938 at a rate similar to the rate applicable in 1937; No. 25 changed the style of Inspector General of Police and Deputy Inspector General- of Police and Police Probationer to Commissioner of Police, Deputy Commissioner of Police and Police Cadet respectively and authorised the Legislative Council by resolution to make additional alterations in the style of public officers at any time; Ordinance No. 27 gave effect to certain amendments found necessary in the preparation of the revised Ordinances (1937 edition).
8. The subordinate legislation covered a wide range of subjects including. -
Air Navigation, Adulterated Food and Drugs, Asiatic Emigration Boarding House, Betting Duty, Births and Deaths Registration, Buildings, Cremation, Crown Rents (Apportion- ment), Dangerous Drugs, Defences (Firing Areas), Dentistry, Emergency Regulations (Cholera), Ferries, Forestry, Hawkers, Hong Kong (Coinage), Lighting Control, Liquors, Marriage, Merchant Shipping, Midwives, Naval Volunteer, New Territories Public Health (Sanitation), Nursing and Maternity Homes. Registration, Public Health (Animals and Birds), Pensions, Pharmacy and Poisons, Places of Public Entertainment, Pleasure Grounds and Bathing Places, Post Office, Prisons, Public Health (Food), Public Health (Sanitation), Quarantine and Prevention of Disease, Rating, Registration of Imports and Exports, Rope Company's Tramway, Telecommunication, Tram- ways, Vaccination, Vehicles and Traffic, Volunteer and Watch-
men.
Chapter XV.
PUBLIC FINANCE & TAXATION.
The following tables show the Revenue and Expenditure for the five years 1933 to 1937 inclusive.
Revenue. Expenditure. Surplus. Deficit.
$31,122,715 $976,563
1933
$32,099,278
1934
1935
29,574,286 28,430,550 28,291,636
31,149,156
$1,574,870
138,914
1936
30,042,984 29,513,520
529,464
1937
33,196,368 32,111,222 -1,085,146
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