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No. 16.
琥六十第 日九十二月二年开己
VICTORIA, SATURDAY, 30TH MARCH, 1889.
日十三月三年九十八百八千一
VOL. XXXV.
簿五十三第
LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL, No. 8.
FRIDAY, 22ND MARCH, 1889.
PRESENT:
HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR (SIR G. WILLIAM DES VEUX, K.C.M.G.)
The Honourable the Colonial Secretary (FREDERICK STEWART).
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the Acting Attorney General, (ANDREW JOHN LEACH).
the Acting Colonial Treasurer, (HENRY ERNEST WODEHOUSE, C.M.G.). the Acting Registrar General, (NORMAN GILBERT MITCHELL-INNES). PHINEAS RYRIE.
WONG SHING.
JOHN BELL-IRVING.
BENDYSHE LAYTON, (vice the Honourable ALEXANDER PALMER MACEWEN). CATCHICK PAUL CHATER.
ABSENT:
The Honourable the Surveyor General, (JOHN MACNEILE PRICE), by permission.
the Captain Superintendent of Police, (WALTER MEREDITH DEANE), on leave. the Registrar General, (JAMES HALDANE STEWART LOCKHART), on leave.
The Council met pursuant to notice.
absent on
NEW MEMBER. Mr. NORMAN GILBERT MITCHELL-INNES, Acting Registrar General, having been appointed an Official Member in the room of the Honourable J. H. STEWART LOCKHART, leave, took the usual Oath and his seat at the Council table.
The Minutes of the last Meeting, held on the 7th instant, were read and confirmed. GOVERNOR'S MESSAGE.-PRAYA RECLAMATION.-Read the following Message by His Excellency the Governor :—
G. WILLIAM DES VEUX.
The Governor has given directions that there shall be laid before the Legislative Council an Ordinance to be entitled "The Praya Reclamation Ordinance, 1889 containing the necessary provisions for carrying out a great scheme of reclamation in front of the central and western portions of the Town of Victoria.
Though the general nature of the scheme and the manner in which it is proposed to be carried out have become well known to Honourable Members and to the community, the various questions connected with this great undertaking are now for the first time brought under the consideration of the Legislative Council; and it may be well therefore to make a short statement on the subject for the information of interested persons outside the Colony, and for the purpose of convenient reference in the future.