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LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL.

No. S. 313.-The following Bills were read a first time at a meeting of the Council held on the 22nd September, 1937 :—

Short title.

Appropria- tion.

A BILL

INTITULED

[No. 28-8.9.37.-1.]

An Ordinance to apply a sum not exceeding Twenty-six million three hundred and twenty-seven thousand three hundred and forty-three Dollars to the Public Service of the year 1938.

WHEREAS the expenditure required for the service of this Colony for the year 1938 has, apart from the contribution to the Imperial Government in aid of Military Expenditure and Charges on account of Public Debt, been estimated at the sum of Twenty-six million three hundred and twenty- seven thousand three 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 for 1938 Ordinance, 1937.

2. A sum not exceeding Twenty-six million three hundred and twenty-seven thousand three 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 1938, and the said sum so charged may be expended as hereinafter specified, that is to say:-

His Excellency the Governor

EXPENDITURE.

$

181,897

Colonial Secretary's Department and Legislature.

308,038

Secretariat for Chinese Affairs

146,094

Treasury

Audit Department

322,901

125,443

District Office, North

75,788

District Office, South

53,506

Post Office

820,546

Radio Traffic Office

Wireless

Imports and Exports Office

Harbour Department

Air Services

183,065

279,929

496,314

1,314,654

120,271

Carried forward

$ 4,428,446

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