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THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 15TH MARCH, 1890.
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Read the following Minute by His Excellency the Officer Administering the Government:---
F. FLEMING.
Mis. Serv. C.S.O.
The Officer Administering the Government recommends the Council to vote the sum of 453 of 1500. Fifty Pounds Sterling as remuneration to Colonel BEAUMONT for his report on the proposed
£50.
removal of the Bokhara rocks,
also
$100. One hundred dollars for the cost of his stay in Hongkong.
Government House, Hongkong, 26th February, 1890.
The Acting Colonial Secretary moved that this vote be referred to the Finance Committee. The Acting Attorney General seconded.
His Excellency addressed the Council.
Question-put and passed.
BALL ROOM, &C., GOVERNMENT HOUSE.-His Excellency, referring to the vote for $25,000 which appears on the Estimates for this year, informed the Council that plans and estimates had been received for this service, showing the total cost to be $40,000, but that the current year's expenditure on this account is not likely to exceed the amount already voted.
VOTES PASSED BY THE FINANCE COMMITTEE.-The Acting Colonial Secretary, by direction of His Excellency the Officer Administering the Government, laid on the table the Report of the Finance. Committee, dated the 12th ultimo, (No. 2), and moved that the following Votes referred to therein be passed, viz.:-
24351989. (1.) General overhaul, &c. to Health Officer's Steam-launch Blanche,
.$
766.00
370 of 1990. (2.) Laying pipes, Steam Engine, &c., for supplying the Peak District with water, $27,000.00
Coral (3.) Illuminations, &c. on the approaching arrival of the Duke and Duchess of
General,
25th Nov.,
1889.
C.S.0.
2463 of 1889.
Connaught,
.$12,000.00
(4.) Purchase of 12 Maxim Nordenfeldt Guns and Ammunition for Volunteers,...$37,275.98
The Acting Attorney General seconded. Question-put and passed.
BILL ENTITLED AN ORDINANCE FOR THE NATURALIZATION OF LAM LEUNG SING otherwise LAM YUK PAU.-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 TO AMEND THE PUBLIC HEALTH ORDINANCE, 1887.-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 THE MAGISTRATES' ORDINANCE, 1890.-The Acting Attorney General moved the second reading of this Bill.
The Acting Colonial Secretary seconded.
Question-put and passed.
Bill read a second time.
The Acting Attorney General then moved that the Bill be referred to a 'Special Committee con- sisting of the
ACTING COLONIAL SECRETARY,
ATTORNEY GENERAL, and Dr.. HO KAI.
Question--put and passed.
ADJOURNMENT.The Council then adjourned till Wednesday, the 12th instant, at 3 r.M.
Read and confirmed, this 12th day of March, 1890.
ARATHIOON SETHI,
Clerk of Councils.
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F. FLEMING, Administering the Government.
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