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VICTORIA, SATURDAY, 18TH JANUARY, 1890. 日八十二月二十年丑己 日八十月正年十九百八千一
VOL. XXXVI.
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LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL, No. 23.
WEDNESDAY, 18TH DECEMBER, 1889.
PRESENT:
HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR
(SIR G. WILLIAM DES VEUX, K.C.M.G.).
The Honourable the Acting Colonial Secretary (A. LISTER).
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the Acting Colonial Treasurer, (HENRY ERNEST WODEHOUSE, C.M.G.).
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the Captain Superintendent of Police, (WALTER MEREDITH DEANE).
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the Acting Registrar General, (NORMAN GILBERT MITCHELL-INNES). the Surveyor General, (SAMUEL BROWN).
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PHINEAS RYRIE.
WONG. SHING.
ALEXANDER PALMER MACEWEN.
CATCHICK PAul Chater,
JAMES JOHNSTONE KESWICK, (vice the Honourable JOHN BELL-IRVING).
ABSENT:
The Honourable the Acting Attorney General, (ANDREW JOHN LEACH).
The Council met pursuant to adjournment.
The Minutes of the last Meeting, held on the 14th instant, were read and confirmed.
BILL ENTITLED AN ORDINANCE TO AMEND THE MERCHANT SHIPPING CONSOLIDATION Ordinance, 1879. The Acting Colonial Secretary moved the first reading of this Bill.
The Acting Colonial Treasurer seconded.
Question-put and passed.
Bill read a first time.
The Standing Orders being suspended, the Acting Colonial Secretary moved the second reading of the Bill.
The Acting Colonial Treasurer seconded.
Mr. MACEWEN addressed the Council, and enquired whether the tax proposed in this Bill to be levied for the purposes of the Gap Rock Lighthouse would be withdrawn after the Lighthouse had been finished.
His Excellency the Governor replied in the affirmative.