1162 THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 26TH NOVEMBER, 1898.
RESOLUTION. The Director of Public Works, pursuant to notice, addressed the Council and moved the following resolution :---
Be it resolved by the Legislative Council that the percentages on the valuation of tenements, payable as rates, in the village of Hung Hom be altered from 10 to 121 per cent. and in the village of Mongkoktsui from 9 to 10 per cent.
The Acting Colonial Secretary seconded.
Question-put and agreed to.
BILL ENTITLED AN ORDINANCE FOR THE NATURALIZATION OF ONE UN CHUNG WO alias ÜN Oi Ü alias ÜN HI alias ÜN KWOK HI.- l'he Acting Attorney General moved the first reading of the Bill.
The Acting Colonial Secretary seconded.
Question-put and agreed to.
Bill read a first time.
BILL ENTITLED 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.-The Acting Colonial Secretary addressed the Council and moved the second reading of the Bill.
The Acting Colonial Treasurer seconded.
Question-put and agreed to.
Bill read a second time.
The Acting Colonial Secretary moved that the Bill be referred to the Finance Committee.
The Acting Colonial Treasurer seconded.
Question-put and agreed to.
His Excellency the Officer Administering the Government at this stage retired and a meeting of the Finance Committee was then held to consider the Bill.
Council in Committee on the Bill.
Council resumed and Bill reported without amendment.
The Acting Colonial Secretary moved the third reading of the Bill.
The Acting Colonial Treasurer seconded.
Bill read a third time.
Question put-that this Bill do pass.
Bill passed.
ADJOURNMENT.--The Council then adjourned sine die.
Read and confirmed this 22nd day of November, 1898.
J. G. T. BUCKLE,
Clerk of Councils.
WILSONE BLACK, Officer Administering the Government.
GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.-No. 529.
The following Bill, which was read a first time at a Meeting of the Legislative Council held this day, is published.
Council Chamber, Hongkong, 22nd November, 1898.
J. G. T. BUCKLE, Clerk of Councils.