THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 30TH OCTOBER, 1897.
A BILL
ENTITLED
An Ordinance to apply a sum not exceeding Two Millions Three hundred and Forty-three thousand Seven hundred and Thirty Dollars to the Public Service of the Year 1898.
WHEREAS the expenditure required for the service of this Colony for the year 1898 has, apart from the contri- bution to the Imperial Government in aid of Military Expenditure, been estimated at the sum of Two Millions Three hundred and Forty-three thousand Seven hundred and Thirty 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 Millions Three hundred and Forty-three thousand Seven hundred and Thirty Dollars shall be and the same is hereby charged upon the Revenue and other funds of the Colony for the service of the year 1898, and the said sum so charged may be expended as hereinafter specified, that is to say --
EXPENDITURE.
Charge on account of Public Debt,
Pensions,
Governor and Legislature,
176,123
145,000
42,903
Colonial Secretary's Department,
27,267
Audit Department,
10,000
Treasury,
22,667
Public Works Department,
92,782
Post Office,
211,785
Registrar General's Department,
13,341
Harbour Master's Department,
62,813
Lighthouses,
15,770
Observatory,
12,876
Stamp Office,
3,617
Botanical and Afforestation Department,
18,509
Legal Departments,
73,930
Ecclesiastical,
2,200
Education,
76,403
Medical Departments,
108,133
Magistracy,
19,562
Police,
300,252
Sanitary Department,
105,018
Charitable Allowances,
5,260
Transport,
3,000
Miscellaneous Services,
173,103
Contribution towards Barrack Services,
40,000
Colonial Defences-Expenses of the Volunteers,
12,000
Contribution towards Defence Works,
30,000
Public Works, Recurrent,
199,000
2,003,314
Public Works, Extraordinary, viz. :—
(Chargeable to Revenue.)
Improvements Recreation Ground,
Happy Valley,
$16,000
Water Supply, Kowloon,
5,000
Tytam Waterworks Extension,
1,586
Rond from Victoria Gap to Mount
Kellett Road,-
-
12,900
Extension of Station Street North,
Kowloon, and Streets at Mong-
koktsui,-
5,000
Taipingshan Improvement,-
10,000
City of Victoria and Hill District
Waterworks.-
65,000
Gardeners' Cottages,
2,000
Improvement of Gas Lighting, City
of Victoria,
2,000
Forming and kerbing Streets to pro-
vide for Extensions of the City
and Villages,-
10,000
Extensions of Gas Lighting, Road from Plantation Road to Ma-
3,000
gazine Gap,
·
14,000
Reconstruction of No. 7, Police Sta-
tion,
6,000
Carried forward,
$185,486 2,003,314
897
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