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THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 14TH OCTOBER, 1899. 1589

GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION. -No. 556.

The following Bills, which were read a first time at a Meeting of the Legislative Council held this day, are published.

Council Chamber, Hongkong, 4th October. 1899.

R. F. JOHNSTON, Acting Clerk of Councils.

A BILL

ENTITLED

An Ordinance to apply a sum not exceeding Two million Six hundred and Eighty-one thousand Six hundred and Fifty-one Dollars to the Public Service of the Year 1900.

WHEREAS the expenditure required for the service of this Colony for the year 1900 has, apart from the contri- bution to the Imperial Government in aid of Military Expenditure, been estimated at the sum of Two million Six hundred and Eighty-one thousand Six hundred and Fifty-one Dollars: Be it enacted by the Governor of Hongkong, with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council thereof, as follows:—

1. A sum not exceeding Two million Six hundred and Eighty-one thousand Six hundred and Fifty-one Dollars shall be and the same is hereby charged upon the Revenue and other funds of the Colony for the service of the year 1900, and the said sum so charged may be expended as hereinafter specified, that is to say :---

EXPENDITURE.

Charge on account of Public Debt,

160,808.00

Pensions,

170,000.00

Governor and Legislature,

42,303.00

Colonial Secretary's Department,-

40,563.00

Audit Department,

10,000.00

Treasury,

-

26,564.00

Public Works Department,

91,402.00

Post Office,

259,124.00

Registrar General's Department, -

13,471.00

Harbour Master's Department,

76,248.00

Lighthouses,

13,670.00

Observatory,

13,676.00

Botanical and Afforestation Department,

.

18,914.40

Legal Departments,

71,182.00

Ecclesiastical,

2,200.00

Education,-

74,807.00

Medical Departments, -

114,137.00

Magistracy,

18,400.00

Police,

495,876.60

Sanitary Department, -

124,746.00

Charitable Allowances,

5,260.00

Transport, -

3,000.00

Miscellaneous Services,

201,999.00

Contribution towards "Barrack Services,"

45,000.00

Colonial Defences,-Expenses of the Volunteers, 30,000.00

Contribution towards Defence Works, -

-

Public Works, Recurrent,

20,000.00

207,200.00

Carried forward, $2,350,551.00