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THE HONGKONG
Government Gazette.
No. 11.
Published by Authority.
VICTORIA, SATURDAY, 3RD MARCH, 1877.
VOL. XXIII.
VOTES AND PROCEEDINGS OF THE LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL OF HONGKONG.
No. 11 OF 1876.
MONDAY, 18TH DECEMBER, 1876.
PRESENT:
His Excellency Governor SIR ARTHUR EDWARD KENNEDY, K.C.M.G., C.B.
The Honourable the Chief Justice (Sir JOHN SMALE).
The Honourable the Colonial Secretary (JOHN GARDINER AUSTIN, C.M.G.).
The Honourable the Acting Attorney General (JAMES RUSSELL).
The Honourable the Acting Colonial Treasurer (CHARLES MAY).
The Honourable HENRY Lowcock.
The Honourable WILLIAM Keswick.
The Honourable PHINEAS RYRIE.
ABSENT:
The Council meets this day at 2.30 P.M., pursuant to adjournment.
The Minutes of the Meeting of Council held on the 11th December, 1876, are read and confirmed. Read a second time a Bill to regulate the Number of Passengers carried by Steam-vessels plying between
· Hongkong and Macao, and between Hongkong and Places on the Canton River.
By direction of His Excellency a report is read from the Harbour Master stating the number of passengers now carried by the river steamers, the net registered tonnage of these vessels, and the diminution in the number of passengers which the passing of the new Ordinance would entail.
A letter is also read from Messrs. Butterfield and Swire urging the grounds in considera- tion of which they hoped the Bill would not be permitted to become law.
A further report from the Harbour Master, in reply to the statements contained in this letter, is also read.
The Council deliberates, and finally the second reading of the Bill is carried nemine dissentiente.
The Bill is then committed and passed, without alteration, bearing the Title of "An Ordinance enacted by the Governor of Hongkong, with the Advice of the Legislative Council thereof, to regulate the Number of Passengers carried by Steam-vessels plying between Hongkong and Macao, and between Hongkong and Places on the Canton River,”—being "No. 11 of 1876.” His Excellency moves for a vote of £218.10 for payment of a life saving and rocket apparatus
en purchased for the Hongkong Humane Society, and states in detail bis
it desirable that this apparatus should become public property. bte carried.
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ma a vote which, having already been approved by Honourd lonial Chaplain for compensation for all past or prospective loss ition of his fees through the working of the new Marriage Ordina
500 to
ught in the