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LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL.

No. S. 617. The following Bill was read a first time at a meeting of the Council held on the 16th November, 1939 :—-

[C.S.O. 136/39.]

A BILL

[No. 45-4.11.39.-2.]

Short title.

Appropria- tion from general

revenues.

INTITULED

An Ordinance to apply a sum not exceeding Forty-nine million seven hundred and six thousand seven hundred and eighty-seven Dollars to the Public Service of the financial year beginning on the 1st January, 1940, and ending on the 31st March, 1941, and also to apply an additional sum not exceeding Five hundred and fifty- nine thousand one hundred Dollars to the Waterworks Renewals and Improvements Fund for the service of that Fund in the said financial year.

WHEREAS the expenditure required for the service of the Colony for the financial year beginning on the 1st January, 1940, and ending on the 31st March, 1941 has, apart from Charges on account of Public Debt, been estimated at the sum of Forty-nine million seven hundred and six thousand seven hundred and eighty-seven Dollars to be met from the general revenues of the Colony, and an additional sum of Five hundred and fifty-nine thousand one hundred Dollars to be met from the Waterworks Renewals and Improvements Fund:

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 1940-1941 Ordinance, 1939.

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2. A sum not exceeding Forty-nine million hundred and six thousand seven hundred and eighty-seven Dollars shall be and the same is hereby charged upon the revenue and other funds of the Colony for the service of the said financial year, and the said sum so charged may be expended as hereinafter specified, that is to say-

EXPENDITURE.

His Excellency the Governor

Colonial Secretary's Office and Legislature

$

218,528

682,818

Audit Department

Botanical and Forestry Department

Charitable Services

149,332

196,466

797,579

Volunteer Defence Corps

Naval Volunteer Force

329,167

65,303

Air Raid Precautions

1,111,627

Defence Contribution

7,500,000

Special War Expenditure

1,000,000

Carried forward...

$12,050,820

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