106 THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 15TH FEBRUARY, 1890.
OBSERVATORY.-Mr. MACEWEN, pursuant to notice, asked the following question :—
When is it the intention of the Government to appoint a Commission to enquire into the working
of the Observatory.
The Governor replied.
BILL ENTITLED AN ORDINANCE TO APPOINT AN ADDITIONAL MEMBER on the Sanitary Board.-- The Acting Attorney General moved the first reading of this Bill.
The Acting Colonial Secretary seconded.
Question-put and passed.
Bill read a first time.
The Standing Orders being suspended, the Acting Attorney General moved that the bill be read a second time.
The Acting Colonial Secretary seconded.
Question-put and passed.
Bill read a second time.
The Council then went into Committee on the bill.
Bill reported without amendment.
The Acting Attorney General then moved that the bill be read a third time.
The Acting Colonial Secretary seconded.
Question-put and passed.
Bill read a third time.
Question put-that this bill do pass.
Bill passed, and numbered as Ordinance 1 of 1890.
BILL ENTITLED An Ordinance for the INCORPORATION OF the Procureur Général, in Hong- KONG, OF THE SOCIETY OF THE MISSIONS ETRANGÈRES.-The Acting Attorney General moved the first reading of this Bill.
The Acting Colonial Secretary seconded.
Question--put and passed.
Bill read a first time.
BILL ENTITLED An Ordinance tTO AMEND THE PROTECTION OF WOMEN AND GIRLS ORDINANCE, 1889.-The Acting Attorney General moved the first reading of this Bill.
The Acting Colonial Secretary seconded.
Question-put and passed.
Bill read a first time.
ADJOURNMENT.
The Governor then adjourned the Council sine die.
Read and confirmed, this 12th day of February, 1890.
ARATHOON SETH,
Clerk of Councils.
G. WILLIAM DES VEUX,
Governor.
GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.-No. 59.
The following Bill, which was read a first time at a Meeting of the Legislative Council held this day, is published for general information.
Council Chamber, Hongkong, 12th February, 1890.
ARATHOON SETH,
Clerk of Councils.
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