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476 ORDINANCE No. 12 OF 1860 .


Water supply.


No. 12 of 1860 .

[Se Ordinances An Ordinance to provide a Supply of Water for the City of Victoria , and
No. 12 of 1860,
No. 5 0.1863, No.
11 of 1867, No. 4 to appropriate a Sum not exceeding Thirty thousand Pounds for
of 1868 and No. 16
of 1890.] such purpose.

[ 10th July, 1860. ]
Preamble. HEREAS it is desirable that suitable works should be constructed for the pur
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pose of providing and maintaining a constant supply of pure water to the
City of Victoria, and it is necessary that funds should be provided for the carrying out
of such works :Be it, therefore, enacted and ordained by His Excellency the Governor
of Hongkong, with the advice of the Legislative Council thereof, as follows : —
A sum not ex 1. A sum not exceeding thirty thousand pounds shall be charged upon the reve
ceeding £ 30,000
to be charged on
the Colonial re nue of this Colony for the purpose of constructing suitable works for supplying the
venue, in addi
tion to the gene City of Victoria with water, in addition to such sums as are now or may hereafter be
ral expenditure .
charged upon the said revenue on account of the expenditure incurred or to be incurred
in and about the general public service of the said Colony ; And His Excellency the
Governor is hereby empowered to draw on the Colonial Treasury for such sum or sums ,
not exceeding the aforesaid amount, as he shall from time to time think fit.

Power to borrow 2. In case the said revenue shall not be sufficient to afford such sum as aforesaid,
in case the reve
nue be deficient.
in addition to the expenditure required for the general public service of the Colony, it
shall be lawful for His Excellency the Governor in Executive Council to borrow such
sum or sums of money as may be so deficient, by mortgage of the water rate hereinafter
authorized ; and every mortgage shall be in the form A. to this Ordinance annexed.

Mortgages to be 3. Every mortgage, which shall be effected under the authority of this Ordinance,
redeemable when
the Governor shall be redeemable whenever His Excellency the Governor in Executive Council shall
shall determine.
determine : Provided always, that six months' notice of such intention to redeem shall
be given to the mortgagee ; and the Governor is hereby authorized and empowered to
appropriate out of the Colonial revenue such sum or sums of money as may be required
to carry out such redemption ; but so that the amount borrowed and redeemed , added
to the amount previously drawn from the Colonial Treasury, shall not at any time ex
ceed in the whole the sum of thirty thousand pounds.
Water rate to be 4. Upon the completion of the said water works there shall be levied half- yearly
imposed on cer
tain sub-districts on the Crown lessees of all lands in the sub-districts comprised within the District of
ofthe City ofVic
toria.
Victoria, except Wong-nei-choong and Soo-koan-poo, a rate to be called a " Water Rate "
estimated at two per cent per annum on the gross annual value of property set forth in
the Police rate assessment for the current year ; and all the provisions of the Ordinances
No. 2 of 1815 and No. 3 of 1851 , touching valuation, and appeal, shall extend and apply
to the said water rate .

Application of 5. The said rate shall be applied in manner following ; that is to say: in the first
such rate.
place, in maintaining the said water works and in defraying all expenses connected
therewith ; in the second place, in securing and repaying any monies which may have