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1050 THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 15TH OCTOBER, 1898.

No. 27 OF 1898.

An Ordinance to apply a sum not exceeding Two Millions Five hundred and Eighty-seven .thousand Eight hundred and Ninety-eight Dollars and Eighty Cents to the Public Service of the Year 1899.

LS

WILSONE BLACK,

Officer Administering the Government.

[14th October, 1898.]

WHEREAS the expenditure required for the service of this Colony for the year 1899 has, apart from the contri- bution to the Imperial Government in aid of Military Expenditure, been estimated at the sum of Two Millions Five hundred and Eighty-seven thousand Eight hundred and Ninety-eight Dollars and Eighty Cents: 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 Millions Five hundred and Eighty-seven thousand Eight hundred and Ninety-eight Dollars and Eighty Cents shall be and the same is hereby charged upon the Revenue and other funds of the Colony for the service of the year 1899, 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,

162,000.00

Governor and Legislature,

42,303.00

Colonial Secretary's Department,-

30,927.00

Audit Department,

10,000.00

Treasury,

22,735.00

Public Works Department,

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92,990.00

Post Office,

236,567.00

Registrar General's Department,

13,171.00

Harbour Master's Department,

63,586.00

Lighthouses,

15,770.00

Observatory,

13,436.00

Stamp Office,

3,692.00

Botanical and Afforestation Department,

18,103.50

Legal Departments,

73,462.00

Ecclesiastical,

2,200.00

Education, -

82,000.00

Medical Departments, -

112,609.00

Magistracy,

19,588.00

Police,

307,648.30

Sanitary Department, –

113,007.00

Charitable Allowances,

5,260.00

Transport, -

3,000.00

Special Service,

14,000.00

Miscellaneous Services,

176,336.00

Contribution towards "Barrack Services,"

45,000.00

Colonial Defences,-Expenses of the Volunteers, 12,000.00

Contribution towards Defence Works,

30,000.00

Cost of re-arming the Volunteers, Public Works, Recurrent,

4,500.00

207,000.00

Carried forward $,2,093,698.80