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THE HONGKONG
Government Gazette.
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No. 3.
VICTORIA, SATURDAY, 15TH JANUARY, 1887,
號三第 日二十二月二十年戌丙 日五十月正年七十八百八千一
VOL. XXXIII.
簿三十三第
LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL No. 10.
FRIDAY, 7TH JANUARY, 1887.
PRESENT:
HIS EXCELLENCY WILLIAM HENRY MARSH, C.M.G.,
Administering the Government in the absence of His Excellency SIR GEORGE FERGUSON BOWEN, G.C.M.G.
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His Honour the Chief Justice, (SIR GEORGE PHILLIPPO, Knt.)
The Honourable the Acting Colonial Secretary, (FREDERICK STEWART.)
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the Acting Attorney General, (EDWARD JAMES ACKROYD.)
the Surveyor General, (JOHN MACNEILE PRICE.)
HENRY GEORGE THOMSETT, R.N.
PHINEAS RYRIE.
WONG SHING.
ALEXANDER PALMER MACEWEN, (rice the Honourable THOMAS JACKSON,
on leave).
CATCHICK PAUL CHATER, (vice the Honourable FREDERICK DAVID SAS-
SOON, on leave).
ABSENT:
The Honourable the Colonial Treasurer, (ALFRED LISTER on leave.
JOHN BELL-IRVING, on leave.
The Council met pursuant to adjournment.
The Minutes of the last Meeting, held on the 10th ultimo, were read and confirmed.
VOTES OF MONEY REFERRED TO THE FINANCE COMMITTEE.-Read the following Minutes by His Excellency the Officer Administering the Government:--
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66 of 1886.
W. H. MARSH.
( 1. )
The Officer Administering the Government recommends the Council to vote the sum of $300 for the erection of a detached Telegraph line to connect the Observatory with the Time- Ball Tower.
The Director of the Observatory having represented that the present line, which is affixed to the same posts which carry other lines for Police Telegraph, is sometimes defective for the purpose of dropping the Time-Ball, a new line well insulated and supported on separate poles is now proposed.
Government House, Hongkong, 7th January, 1887.
W. H. MARSH.
(2.)
The Officer Administering the Government lays before the Council an application for increase of salary by the Inspector of Schools, who has represented that, as shown by the published Annual Reports on Education, his duties have been doubled since 1878, when he joined the service; whilst his emoluments are smaller than those of the Second Master of the Central School, and are not larger than those of the Third Master.