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2. Section 39 of the Principal Ordinance is amended Amendment by the addition of the following subsection at the end of section 39 thereof :-

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of Ordinance No. 6 of

'(4.) It shall be lawful for the Governor-in- 1901. "Council in his discretion to authorise the total or

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partial exemption from assessment of any hostel "attached to the University of Hongkong.

Objects and Reasons.

The object of this Bill is to give the Governor-in-Council power to authorise the total or partial exemption from assessment of any hostel attached to the University of Hongkong.

A BILL

INTITULED

J. H. KEMP,

Attorney General.

An Ordinance to authorize the Appropriation of a Supplementary Sum of Seven hundred and eighty-seven thousand two hundred and fifty- two Dollars and twenty-six Cents, to defray the Charges of the Year 1914.

WHEREAS it has become necessary to make further pro- vision for the public service of the Colony for the year 1914, 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 Hongkong, with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council thereof, as follows: •

A sum of Seven hundred and eighty-seven thousand two hundred and fifty-two Dollars and twenty-six Cents, is hereby charged upon the revenue of the Colony for the service of the year 1914, the said sum so charged being expended as hereinafter specified; that is to say :-

Governor,

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Treasury,

Harbour Master's Department,

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Miscellaneous Services,

Police and Prison Departments,

Botanical and Forestry Department, .

Military Expenditure,-Volunteers, Public Works, Recurrent,

Kowloon-Canton Railway,

Charitable Services,

329.29

603.60

1,677.98

688,003.62

1,749.52

767.14

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2,544.80

86,100.18

3,157.39 2,318.74

Total,

$787,252.26