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THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 14TH JUNE, 1890.
(2.)
F. FLEMING.
The Officer Administering the Government recommends the Council to vote the sum of Five hundred and Thirty-four Dollars. ($534), being additional sum required to defray the salaries and rations of Nursing Staff for the Civil Hospital, for six months of 1890, viz. :-
Additional Salaries:-
1 Head Nurse, 6 months,
5 Nurses, (one new), 6 months,
.$
60.00
360.00
1 Amah, 6 months,
24.00
$
444.00
Rations for one more Nurse, 6 months,.....
90.00
$
534.00
C.S.U.
1833 of 1882.
C.S.O.
986 of 1880.
Government House, Hongkong, 20th May, 1890.
F. FLEMING.
(3.)
The Officer Administering the Government recommends the Council to vote the sum of Two hundred and Thirty Dollars, and Eighty Cents, ($230.80), being expenses incurred in carrying out an experiment as to the possibility of successfully and economically cultivating in the Colony bovine vaccine lymph.
Government House, Hongkong, 21st May, 1890.
F. FLEMING.
(4.)
The Officer Administering the Government recommends the Council to vote the sum of Eight hundred and Seventy-five Dollars, ($875), for a compassionate allowance to Mrs. Mac- BEAN, widow of the late Bailiff and Hindustani Interpreter in the Supreme Court, being the equivalent of 7 months' salary of her late husband, who was in the service of the Colony for Twenty-three years, and gave great satisfaction in the discharge of his duties.
Government House, Hongkong, 27th May, 1890.
The Acting Colonial Secretary moved that these Minutes, be referred to the Finance Committee. The Treasurer seconded.
His Excellency addressed the Council on the Minutes in connection with the works in the Wong- neichung Valley, the Nursing Staff for the Civil Hospital, and the cultivation of vaccine lymph.
Question-put and agreed to.
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 16th instant, (No. 9), and moved that the following Vote referred to therein be passed,
viz. :
C.S.O.
589 of 1890.
Additional sum to the vote of $12,000 passed by the Council on the 12th March, last, to meet expenses connected with the visit to the Colony of Their Royal Highnesses THE DUKE AND DUCHESS OF CONNAUGHT,
The Treasurer seconded.
Question-put and agreed to.
.$ 2,334.01
The Council then went into Committee to consider the Report of the Special Committee to frame New Standing Rules and Orders.
The Attorney General moved and the Acting Colonial Secretary seconded that the word Wednesday" be struck out of Clause I and "Monday" be inserted in lieu thereof.
Question--put and agreed to.
Honourable P. RYRIE moved and the Honourable C. P. CHATER seconded that the following words be added to Rule 28:-"Provided that if a Bill has been considered and reported on by a Special Committee it shall suffice if instead of reading the whole of each clause the marginal notes alone be read by the Clerk in Committee of the whole Council."
After some discussion the Honourable P. RYRIE withdrew his amendment.
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