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LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL.

No. S. 116. The following Bills were read a first time at a Meeting of the Council held on the 22nd June, 1916:-

A BILL

INTITULED

An Ordinance to authorize the Appropriation of a Supplementary Sum of Three millions nine hundred and forty-seven thousand and twenty-seven Dollars and forty-one Cents, to defray the Charges of the Year 1915.

WHEREAS it has become necessary to make further pro- vision for the public service of the Colony for the year 1915, 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 Three millions nine hundred and forty-seven thousand and twenty-seven Dollars and forty-one Cents, is hereby charged upon the revenue of the Colony for the service of the year 1915, the said sum so charged being expended as hereinafter specified; that is to say :-

Miscellaneous Services,

Kowloon-Canton Railway,

.$ 812,731.78

.3,036,199.56

Charge on Account of Publie Debt,.

55,151,86

Pensions,

31,049.40

Charitable Services,.....

11,894.81

Total,

.$3,947,027.41

A BILL

INTITULED

Short title

and con- struction.

Ordinances

No. 28 and 30 of 1914 and 11 of 1915.

Interpreta- tion.

An Ordinance to amend further the Alien

Enemies (Winding up) Ordinance, 1914.

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

1. This Ordinance may be cited as the Alien Enemies (Winding up) Amendment Ordinance, 1916, and shall be read and construed as one with the Alien Enemies (Wind- ing up) Ordinance, 1914, hereinafter called the principal Ordinance, and with the Alien Enemies (Winding up) Amendment Ordinance, 1914, and with the Alien Enemies (Winding up) Amendment Ordinance, 1915, and the said Ordinances and this Ordinance may be cited together as the Alien Enemies (Winding up) Ordinances, 1914 to 1916.

2. In the Alien Enemies (Winding up) Ordinances, 1914 to 1916 :—

Legal proceeding" includes an arbitration, and refer- ences to the bringing of legal proceedings against any persons shall in the case of arbitrations be construed as referring to the commencement of arbitrations to which such persons would be parties.