CO129-576-10 Estimates 1940 6-10-1939 - 22-10-1940 — Page 54

No. 758.

Sir,

SEEN 341 Weir

RECEIVED

C.

21 DEC1939

53652/39

H

GOVERNMENT HOUSE,

HONG KONG.

11th December, 1939.

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Enclosure No.1.

Enclosure No.2.

2.

I have the honour to submit for the

signification of His Majesty's pleasure the following

Crdinance intituled:-

2.

3.

An Ordinance to apply a sum not exceeding

Forty-nine million seven hundred and six

thousand seven hundred and eighty-seven

Dollars to the Public Service of the

financial year beginning on the 1st

January, 1940, and ending on the 31st

March, 1941, and also to apply an

additional sum not exceeding Five hundred

and fifty-nine thousand one hundred

Dollars to the Waterworks Renewals and

Improvements Fund for the service of that

Fund in the said financial year.

The enclosed report by the Attorney General

explains the objects and reasons of the Ordinance.

A special third section has been added to

cover the appropriation from the Waterworks Renewals

and Improvements Fund and a schedule of expenditure is

included in the section and also in Appendix VII of the

draft estimates which were transmitted to you with my

despatch No.722 of 17th November, 1939. This procedure

for the provision of statutory authority for expenditure

from the Fund will be followed in the future. For

1939, as you are aware, no such provision was made in

THE RIGHT HONOURABLE

MALCOLM MACDONALD, M.P.,

&c.

&C.,

&c.