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ATTORNEY GENERAL'S CHAMBERS,

Hong Kong,

6th March

.1941.

REPORT ON ORDINANCE No.

4

of 194 1.

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1. I have examined the accompanying Ordinance intituled an

Ordinance to apply a sum not exceeding Fifty-two million

four hundred and eighty three thousand two hundred and

ninety four Dollars to the Public Service of the

financial year beginning on the 1st April, 1941, and

ending on the 31st March, 1942, and also to apply an

additional sun not exceeding Eight hundred and thirty-

two thousand Dollars to the Waterworks Renewals and

Improvements Fund for the service of that Fund in the

said financial year.

2. The Ordinance is in the same form as Ordinance No. 40

of 1939 except that it is for a financial year of twelve

months instead of fifteen months and that Defence

Contribution, fixed and appropriated by section 2 of

Ordinance No. 8 of 1939, is referred to in the Preamble

and does not appear as an item of expenditure

appropriated in section 2.

3. I am of opinion that the Ordinance is not contrary

to the Governor's Instructions and that it is one to

which His Excellency the Officer Administering the