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LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL.

No. S. 142.-The following Bills were read a first time at a meeting of the Council held on the 23rd June, 1927:-

C.S.O.

[No. 9:--26 5.27.—.1]

A BILL

INTITULED

An Ordinance to authorize the Appropriation of a Supplementary Sum of One million and eighty-three thousand eight hundred and ninety-two Dollars and forty-two Cents to defray the Charges of the year 1926.

WHEREAS it has become necessary to make further provision for the public service of the Colony for the year 1926, in addition to the charge upon the revenue of the Colony for the service of the said year already provided for:

Be it enacted by the Governor of Hong Kong, with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council thereof, as follows :-

A sima of one million and eighty-three thousand eight hundred and ninety-two Dollars and forty-two Cents is hereby charged upon the revenue of the Colony for the service of the year 1926, the said sun so charged being expended as hereinafter specified; that

is to say:

His Excellency the Governor

21,058.79

Audit Department

Royal Observatory

2,079.05

8,517.37

Fire Brigade

25.745.50

Supreme Court

6,467.40

Attorney General -

1,470.97

Office of Crown Solicitor and Land

Registry

8,441.52

Public Works Recurrent

623,116.80

Kowloon Canton Railway

135,509.88

Charitable Services. -

21,355.01

Miscellaneous Services

230,129.63

TOTAL

-$1,083,892.42

26th May, 1927.