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THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 22ND SEPTEMBER, 1877.

1876.

Supplement- I. A sum not exceeding Seventy-four thousand dollars shall be ary Estimates, and the same is hereby charged upon the revenue of this Colony for the service of the year 1876, the said sum so charged being expended as hereinafter specified; that is to say:-

Governor,

Colonial Secretary,

Colonial Treasurer,

Registrar General,

Gaol,

Fire Brigade,

ESTABLISHMENTS.

Total Establishments,

SERVICES EXCLUSIVE OF ESTABLISHMENTS,

$ c.

1,9

33

322.86

251.99

113.30

307.95

323.58

$3,287.51

405.86.

1,781.43

302.36

Postmaster General,

Police,

Gaol,

Fire Brigade,

4,509.71

Charitable Allowances,

288.76

Works and Buildings,

46,181.81

Roads, Streets, and Bridges,

9,443.19

Miscellaneous Services,

1,381.71

Military Contribution,

5,855.53

Total exclusive of Establishments,

70,150.36

Total,

$73,437.87

Passed the Legislative Council of Hongkong, this 17th day of September, 1877.

J. M. D'ALMADA E CASTRO,

Acting Clerk of Councils..

GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.

The following Bill, which was read a first time at a Meeting of the Legislative Council held this day, is published for general information.

By Command,

Council Chamber, Hongkong, 17th September, 1877.

Title.

Preamble.

J. M. D'ALMADA E CASTRO, Acting Clerk of Councils.

An Ordinance enacted by the Governor of Hongkong, with the advice of the Legislative Council thereof, to relieve a certain class of Passenger Steamers from the Regulations of Schedule A of" The Chinese Passengers' Act, 1855," and from the Regulations of Schedule E of The Chinese Emigration Consolidation Ordinance, 1874," and to substitute other Regulations in regard thereto.

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1855," it is enacted that it should be lawful for the Legislature of Hongkong by any Ordinance to be by them enacted for that purpose, to make regulations respecting Chinese passenger ships, and, in the case of British ships, respecting the treatment of passengers therein while at sea, and that until such enactment, the regulations contained in schedule A to the said Act annexed should be in force.

And whereas by the VIII section of "The Chinese Emigration Consolidation Ordinance, 1874," it is provided that all ships clearing out or proceeding to sea upon voyages of not more than thirty days duration shall be subject to the modified regulations contained in schedule E of that Ordinance, which, as regards such ships, shall be substituted for those contained in schedule A of "The Chinese Passengers' Act, 1855," but that nothing i the said section shall be deemed to relieve Chinese passenger ships from the operation of the said Act, except so far as the same is by the said schedule expressly modified.