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THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 28TH MAY, 1887.
VOTE OF MONEY REFERRED TO THE FINANCE COMMITTEE.-Read the following Minute by His Excellency the Officer Administering the Government:-
C.S.O.
$48 of 1887.
W. G. CAMERON.
The Officer Administering the Government recommends the Council to vote the sum of $150 for the purpose of supplying to the Magistracy a Press for keeping Court Records, similar to one supplied in 1883.
Government House, Hongkong, 13th May, 1887.
The Acting Colonial Secretary moved that this vote be referred to the Finance Committee. Captain THOMSETT seconded.
Question-put and passed.
PAPER.-The Acting Colonial Secretary, by direction of His Excellency the Officer Administering the Government, laid upon the table the following paper:-
Reclamation of, and building at, Causeway Bay (No. 7).
The Surveyor General moved that the question be referred for the consideration of the Public Works Committee of the Council, and that all the Members of the Council be invited to take part in it.
The Acting Colonial Secretary seconded.
Question-put and passed.
OPIUM BILL.The Officer Administering the Government informed the Council that a telegram had come into his hands stating that the Chinese Government had accepted, as an experiment and on trial, the recent proposals of a Member of this Council accepted by the Chamber of Commerce in con- nexion with the Opium Bill now before the Council, and that the Government was in communication, by telegraph, with the Secretary of State for the Colonies on the subject.
BILL ENTITLED AN ORDINANCE TO AMEND AND CONSOLIDATE THE LAW RELATING TO JURORS.-On the motion of the Acting Attorney General, seconded by the Acting Colonial Secretary, the Council went into Committee on this Bill
Bill reported with amendments.
The Acting Attorney General moved that the Standing Orders be suspended, and 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 No. 18 of 1887.
BILL ENTITLED AN ORDINANCE TO ENABLE THE TRUSTEES OF THE RHENISH MISSIONARY SOCIETY TO SELL AND DISPOSE OF CERTAIN LEASEHOLD PROPERTY WITHIN THE COLONY OF HONGKONG.-On the motion of the Acting Attorney General, seconded by the Acting Colonial Secretary, this Bill was read a third time.
Question put-that this Bill do pass.
Bill passed, and numbered as Ordinance No. 19 of 1887.
BILL ENTITLED AN ORDINANCE FOR THE NATURALISATION OF CH'AN KWOK YING.-On the motion of the Acting Attorney General, seconded by the Acting Colonial Secretary, this Bill was read a third time.
Question put--that this Bill do pass.
Bill passed, and numbered as. Ordinance No. 20 of 1887.
BILL ENTITLED AN ORDINANCE TO CONSOLIDATE THE LAW RELATING TO VARIOUS LICENCES.—On the motion of the Acting Attorney General, seconded by the Acting Colonial Secretary, this Bill was read a third time.
Question put that this Bill do pass.
Bill passed and numbered as Ordinance No. 21 of 1887. ADJOURNMENT. The Council then adjourned sine die.
Read and confirmed, this 23rd day of May, 1887.
ARATHOON SETH, Clerk of Councils.
W. G. CAMERON, ' Major-General, Administering the Government.