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THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 22ND SEPTEMBER, 1877.
PAYMENTS AUTHORISED IN EXCESS OF THE ESTIMATES OF 1877, REQUIRING LEGISLATIVE AUTHORITY.
ESTABLISHMENTS:-
Surveyor General.
Chinese Interpreter to Inspector of Nuisances, at $15 per me th, ...... Temporary Salaries, for Additional Assistance in the Office for 6 months,
Postmaster General.
$ 180.00 600.00
780.00
Temporary Clerk at Shanghai Post Office, $30 per month, from 1st February,
1877,
Harbour Master.
4 Extra Boatmen for Yau Má-Tí Harbour Station, to carry out Ordinance
No. 6 of 1866, at $6 per month each,
Civil Hospital.
.$ 300.00
$168.00
Additional Salaries to Civil Hospital Staff, in lieu of Rations, $30 per month, $ 360.00
SERVICES EXCLUSIVE OF ESTABLISHMENTS :—
Surveyor General.
House Rent for 3 Inspectors of Nuisances, at $15 per month each, 6 months, $ 270
Police.
Stores for the Water Police, ordered from England, £125,
New Boiler for No. 2 Steam Fire Engine,.
Fire Brigade.
Charitable Allowances.
.$600.00
$ 750.00
$ 71.25
Works and Buildings.
Yau Má-Ti,--Fair, including
Villages in Kowloon,.....
improved Road Communication with other
$1,115.00
Cost of 50 Grey Blankets for the Reformatory, .
Roads, Streets, and Bridges.
Repairs to Damages caused by the Rain Storm of the 21st April, 1877, ......$5,401.55
Land and Houses Purchased.
350.00
Purchase of Section B. of Inland Lot No. 418, at Kennedy Town, ............$ 555.00 Compensation on resumption of Land in the Bamboo Garden, whereon a
Chinese Temple and a public Latrine had been erected, Compensation on resumption of Land for the purpose of making a Road to
the new Cattle Market,
100.00
$1,005.00
Miscellaneous Services.
Grant to Revd. Mr. Loercher to assist him to publish a Map of the Canton
. Province,......
For Repairs to Furniture in Council Room,........
500.00
150.00
$650
By direction of His Excellency, the following Report of the Committee of the Legislative C
appointed to enquire into the state of the Engineering Department of the Fire Brigade, is
"Your Committee appointed to enquire inte the state of the Engineering Depa "the Fire Brigade have the honour to submit the following Report:-
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"Your Committee are of opinion, after hearing the evidence and opinions of s "tlemen conversant with the state of the Fire Brigade, and competent to form "that it is not expedient, at the present time, to make any change in the existing a "for the supervision of the Engineering Department."