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THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, OCTOBER 29, 1909.

HONGKONG.

No. 31 or 1909.

An Ordinance to apply a sum not exceeding Five million six hundred and twenty-five thousand six hundred and eighty-three Dollars to the Public Service of the

year 1910.

LS

F. D. LUGARD,

Governor.

[29th October, 1909.]

WHEREAS the expenditure required for the service of this Colony for the year 1910 has, apart from the contri- bution to the Imperial Government in aid of Military Expenditure, been estimated at the sum of Five million six hundred and twenty-five thousand six hundred and eighty-three Dollars;

Be it enacted by the Governor of Hongkong, with the advice and cousent of the Legislative Conneil thereof, as follows:-

1. This Ordinance may be cited as the “ Appropriation Short title.

Ordinance for 1910".

2. A sum not exceeding Five million six hundred and twenty-five thousand six hundred and eighty-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 1910 and the said sum so charge may be expended as hereinafter specified, that is to say --

EXPENDITURE.

Governor,

84.878

Colonial Secretary's Department and Legislature, Registrar General's Department,

68,542

45,985

Audit Department,

28,805

Treasury,

59,597

Harbour Master's Department,

229,931

Observatory,

22.029

Miscellaneous Services,

144,307

Judicial and Legal Departments,

233,677

Police and Prison Departments,

789,157

Medical Departments,-

256,646

Sanitary Department, -

358,018

Botanical and Forestry Department,

50,495

Education,

237,459

Military Expenditure,-

Volunteers,

42,135

Public Works,—

Public Works Department,

333,582

Public Works, Recurrent,

427,500

Public Works, Extraordinary,

Special Land Resumption,

Post Office,

Kowloon-Canton Railway,

Charge on account of Publie Debt,

910,820

374,805

444,313

100,000

176,206

Pensions,

Charitable Services,

227,940

19,456

Total,

$ 5,625,683

Passed the Legislative Council of Hongkong, this 28th day of October, 1909.

C. CLEMENTI,

Clerk of Councils,

Assented to by His Excellency the Governor, the 29th day of October, 1909.

F. H. MAY,

Colonial Secretary.

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