1066
C.S.0.
1838 of 1885.
THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 12TH DECEMBER, 1885.
(2.)
PAYMENTS IN EXCESS OF THE ESTIMATES OF 1886.
ESTABLISHMENTS.
Gaol.
For Salaries of Servants for the Gaol Officers, instead of Servants from among
the prisoners:---
From 1st December, 1885, to 30th November, 1886,--
1st Cook at $9 per month,
.$
108.00
2nd at $8
96.00
""
Three Servants at $7 cach, per month,
252.00
$
456.00
Seconded by the Colonial Treasurer. Question-put and passed.
BILL ENTITLED AN ORDINANCE TO AMEND ORDINANCE 8 OF 1860.-PASSED.-On the motion of the Attorney General, seconded by the Colonial Secretary, this Bill was read a third time.
Question put-that this Bill do pass.
Bill passed.
BILL ENTITLED THE MUNICIPAL RATES ORDINANCE, 1885.-COMMITTED.-On the motion of the Attorney General, the Council went into Committee on this Bill.
Progress reported.
The Council adjourned until Wednesday, the 9th instant, at 4 P.M.
Read and confirmed, this 9th day of December, 1885.
ARATHOON SETH,
Clerk of Councils.
G. F. BOWEN,
Governor.
GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.-No. 474.
The following Farewell Address of His Excellency the Governor to the Legislative Council, together with the reply thereto, is published for general information.
By Command,
FREDERICK STEWART,
Acting Colonial Secretary.
Colonial Secretary's Office, Hongkong, 9th December, 1885,
ADDRESS OF GOVERNOR SIR G. F. BOWEN, G.C.M.G. TO THE LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL OF HONGKONG, DECEMBER 9TH, 1885; WITH THE ADDRESS OF THE COUNCIL IN REPLY.
(1.)
HONOURABLE GENTLEMEN OF THE LEGISLATIVE Council,
I desire to announce officially to you that I intend to proceed from this Colony to India, on my way to England, on the 19th of this month. As you are already aware, I had obtained leave of absence on medical certificate at the beginning of this year, but I then felt that it was my duty to remain at my post during the protracted crisis of the Franco-Chinese hostilities, and of the threatened war with Russia. Her Majesty's Government have expressed "their high appreciation of the public spirit which led me to this decision." Now that peace has been restored, the permission to return to England has been renewed. After twenty-six years' continuous service as the Representative of the Queen in five Colonies successively, it will be agreed that I have fully earned a period of rest.
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