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THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 3RD MARCH, 1877.
The following Committee is then appointed to enquire into the state of the Fire Brigade, with a view to ascertaining the expediency or otherwise of appointing an Engineer to be permanently in charge of the Fire Brigade Engines:---
The Honourable J. GARDINER AUSTIN, Chairman.
The Honourable CHARLES MAY.
The Honourable HENRY LOWCOCK.
The Honourable WILLIAM KESWICK.
His Excellency adjourns the Council sine die at 3.30 P.M.
Read and confirmed, this 26th Day of February, 1877.
H. E. WODEHOUSE,
Clerk of Councils.
JOHN SMALE, Chief Justice, President.
VOTES AND PROCEEDINGS OF THE LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL OF HONGKONG.
No. 1 of 1877.
MONDAY, 26TH FEBRUARY, 1877.
PRESENT:
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 (GEORGE PHILLIPPO).
The Honourable the Acting Colonial Treasurer (CHARLES MAY).
The Honourable PHINEAS RYRIE.
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The Honourable HENRY Lowcock.
The Honourable WILLIAM KESWICK.
The Honourable the Surveyor General (JOHN MACNEILE PRICE).
ABSENT:
His Excellency Governor SIR ARTHUR EDWARD KENNEDY, K.C.M.G., C.B..
Mr. PRICE, who had previously taken the oath as a Member of the Legislative Council, takes his seat
at the Table.
The Council meets this day at 2.30. P.M., by Special Summons.
The Minutes of the last Meeting of Council held on 18th December, 1876, are read and confirmed. · The draft Jury List for 1877 is taken into consideration, and after having been revised and corrected,
and the Special Jurors designated, is finally adopted.
There being no other business before the Council, the Honourable PHINEAS RYRIE rises and begs to propose the following Resolution on the occasion of the approaching close of the administration of His Excellency the Governor,--
"That this Council, while regretting the departure of His Excellency the Governor, con- gratulates him on his appointment to a larger Colony. It cannot meet for the best time during of the his Government here, without recording the high sense which the member tert manner in which His Excellency has administered the affairs of the Colony many im- provements in the Laws, and in the increased protection of life and property di
term of offeez They would especially record the obligation of the Colony to the unforts of His
elleney to remove the impediments to commercial intercourse between colony and