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THE HONGKONG
Government Gazette.
No. 9.
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Published by Authority.
VICTORIA, SATURDAY, 4TH MARCH, 1882. 日五十月正午壬 日四初月三年二十八百八千一
LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL. No. 4.
WEDNESDAY, 22ND FEBRUARY, 1882.
PRESENT:
HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR
(Sir JOHN POPE HENNESSY, K.C.M.G.)
His Honour the Acting Chief Justice, (FRANCIS SNOWDEN).
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The Honourable the Acting Colonial Secretary, (MALCOLM STRUAN TONNOCHY).
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the Attorney General, (EDWARD LOUGHLIN O'MALLEY).
the Acting Colonial Treasurer (WALTER MEREDITH Deane). PHINEAS RYRIE.
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FRANCIS BULKELEY JOHNSON.
ABSENT:
The Honourable WILLIAM KESWICK (on leave).
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JOHN MACNEILE PRICE (on leave). EMANUEL RAPHAEL BELILIOS (on leave).
The Council meets this day by Special Summons.
The Minutes of the last Meeting of Council held on the 9th instant are read.
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Mr. JOHNSON enquires whether the Protest he caused to be delivered to the Clerk of Councils has been placed on the Minutes.
The Governor replies that it was received since the last meeting and cannot therefore be entered on the minutes of the last meeting which was held on the 9th instant.
The Minutes of the Meeting of the 9th of February, 1882, are then confirmed.
By direction of the Governor the Clerk reads the following protest which had been delivered to him on the 13th of February, and His Excellency directs it to be entered on the minutes forthwith :-- To His Excellency Sir JOHN POPE HENNESSY, K.C.M.G., Governor of Hongkong; and to ARATHOON
SETH, Esquire, Clerk of Councils.
HONGKONG, 13th February, 1882.
I do hereby protest in writing against the decision of Your Excellency, intimated by you in the letter addressed to me by the Clerk of Councils, dated the 7th instant, and confirmed by you in the Legislative Council of that day, by which decision Your Excellency ruled that a motion of mine, of my intention to move which, at that Council, I had given due notice, and the terms of which I shall presently state in extenso, was irregular and out of order.
The motion to which I allude, was as follows:-"That His Excellency will be pleased to direct the Acting Colonial Secretary to lay upon the table copies of letters addressed by me to the Acting Colonial Secretary dated 2nd December, with enclosures, and 7th and 15th December, and of the Acting Colonial Secretary's replies dated respectively 5th and 13th December; also that His Excellency will be pleased to lay upon the table copies of a letter addressed by Mr. T. C. HAYLLAR to the Secretary of State for the Colonies, dated on or about 27th July, 1881, of a covering despatch from His Excellency the Governor about the same date, and of a letter from Mr. T. C. HAYLLAR to the Secretary of State, asking permission to withdraw his despatch of 27th July, 1881, and dated 8th September, comprising a series of documents which have been exhibited to members of Council by His Excellency's directions." ---I have the honour to be, your most obedient servant,
F. BULKELEY JOHNSON.