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LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL.

No. S. 276.-The following Bill was read a first time at a meeting of the Council held on the 15th October, 1926:-

Short title.

[No. 15:-6.10.26–1.]

A BILL

INTITULED

An Ordinance to apply a sum not exceeding Seventeen million seven hundred and forty- one thousand five hundred and forty-three Dollars to the Public Service of the year 1927.

WHEREAS the expenditure required for the service of this Colony for the year 1927 has, apart from the contri- bution to the Imperial Government in aid of Military Expenditure and Charges on account of Public Debt, been estimated at the sum of Seventeen million seven hundred and forty-one thousand five hundred and forty- three Dollars :

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 Appropriation Ordinance for 1927.

2. A sum not exceeding Seventeen million seven hundred and forty-one thousand five hundred and forty- three Dollars shall be and the same is hereby charged upon the revenue and other funds of the Colony for the service of the year 1927, and the said sum so charged may be expended as hereinafter specified, that

say:-

EXPENDITURE.

His Excellency the Governor,

Cadet Service,

Senior Clerical and Accounting Staff

Junior Clerical Service,

Colonial Secretary's

Legislature, -

Department

Secretariat for Chinese Affairs;

Treasury,

Audit Department,

District Office, North,

to

101,319

319,200

155,248

733,116

and

46,275

11,729

15,264

44,092

20,905

District Office, South,

10,181

Post Office,

155,321

Imports and Exports Department,

855,767

Harbour Master's Department, -

737,146:

Royal Observatory,

35,275

Fire Brigade,

230,799

Supreme Court,

149,777

Attorney General,

22,538

Crown Solicitor's Office,

38,704

Official Receiver,

9,546

Land Registry,

Police Force,

23,633

Magistracy, Hong Kong,

2,206

Magistracy, Kowloon,

2,248

1,826,592

Prisons Department,

512,167

Medical Department,

781,991

Sanitary Department,

695,363

Botanical and Forestry Department,

98,320

Education Department,

1,163,943

Public Works Department,

1,492,281

Public Works, Recurrent,

1,540,400

Public Works, Extraordinary,

3,706,264

Kowloon-Canton Railway,

Volunteer Defence Corps,

650,033

61,290

Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve,

40,000

Miscellaneous Services,

677,223

Charitable Services,

Pensions,

96,475 675,903

TOTAL,

-$ 17,741,543