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THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 26тп AUGUST, 1899.

No. 20 of 1899.

An Ordinance to authorise the Appropriation of a Supplementary Sum of Three hundred and Eight thousand Six hundred and Seventy-two Dollars and Eighty-seven Cents, to defray the Charges of the Year 1898.

LS

HENRY A. BLAKE,

Governor,

[21st August, 1899.]

WHEREAS it has become necessary to make further pro- vision for the public service of the Colony for the year 1898, in addition to the charge upon the revenue and other funds 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 Conueil thereof, as follows:

1. A sum of Three hundred and Eight thousand Six hundred and Seventy-two Dollars and Eighty-seven Cents is hereby charged upon the revenue and other funds of the Colony for the service of the year 1898, the said sum so charged being expended as hereinafter specified; that is to say :-

Pensious,

$19,210.26

Governor and Legislature,

8,906.58

Colonial Secretary's Department,-

7,595.11

Post Office,

29,776.52

Registrar General's Department, -

1,653.92

Harbour Master's Department,

3,022.25

Legal Departments,

2,162.45

Medical Departments,-

7,369.48

Magistracy,

Transport,-

Miscellaneous Services,

· Expenses of the Volunteers,

Public Works Recurrent,

1,843.00

6,400.92

117,705.49

3,969.70

4,361.43

Ordinary Expenditure,

$218,977.11

Extraordinary Public Works, -

94,695.76

Total,

$308,672.87

Passed the Legislative Council of Hongkong, this 8thi

day of August, 1899..

R. F. JOHNSTON,

Acting Clerk of Councils.

Assented to by His Excellency the Governor, the 21st day of August, 1899.

J. II. STEWART LOCKHART,

Colonial Secretary,

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