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THE HONGKONG GO
MENT GAZETTE, 11TH SEPTEMBER, 1880.
MINUTE BY THE ACTING COLONIAL SECRETARY,
For the Surveyor General to note.
F. STEWART, Acting Colonial Secretory.
10th June, 1879.
10th June, 1879.
MINUTE BY THE SURVEYOR GENERAL.
Noted.
J. M. PRICE,
MINUTE BY THE ACTING COLONIAL SECRETARY.
File until Governor's return.
11th June, 1879.
F. STEWART, Acting Colonial Secretary.
The Governor having returned to the Colony on the 6th of September, 1879, the following
Minutes were written :-
Let me see my minutes directing the Surveyor General to prepare the Plans, &c., for the Central School, and the Stone Cutters' Island prison.
J. POPE HENNESSY.
10th September, 1879.
Let us consider this question raised by Mr. PRICE as to the relative claims of Stone Cutters' Island prison and the Central School upon his Department, at the Executive Council to-day, when we can have the advantage of hearing his views explained in detail.
Attach all other papers on the subject to this.
18th September, 1879.
J. POPE HENNESSY.
EXTRACT FROM MINUTES OF THE EXECUTIVE COUNCIL
HELD ON THE 18TH SEPTEMBER, 1879.
PRESENT:
His Excellency Governor JOHN POPE HENNESSY, C.M.G.
The Honourable the Colonel Commanding the Troops,-Colonel Hall, R.A.
The Honourable the Colonial Secretary,--WILLIAM HENRY MARSH.
The Honourable the Acting Attorney General,-JAMES RUSSELL.
The Honourable JOHN MACNEILE PRICE.
"In reply to His Excellency, the Surveyor General states that he hopes in a very short time "be ready with the Plans and Estimates for a Gaol at Stone Cutters' Island and for a new Central "School."
"In regard to the latter it is agreed to request the Head Master of the Central School to redne "his Estimate of the number of boys for whom the school would be required, as the extent of ground "in the opinion of the Surveyor General, was too small to accommodate the large number of 70*3 "pupils for which Dr. STEWART had recently estimated."