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THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 22ND SEPTEMBER, 1877.
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"Your Committee would strongly recommend, however, that Boilers similar to those now "used in the Dock Yard Engines be substitut a without delay for those at present attached to "the Government Engines."
"Your Committee are disposed to think that it might be possible to procure these Boilers "in Hongkong, and they would recommend the adoption of this course, if feas, in preference to sending to England for them, in order that tlie change may be effected with the utmost 'expedition."
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"This recommendation is based upon a consensus of opinion amongst all those whom your "Committee had the honour to examine, that the break-downs which occasionally take place "with the Government Engines are attributable mainly, if not entirely, to the faulty principle
upon which their Boilers are constructed."
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"Your Committee are not aware of any other change which it is necessary to make in the Engineering Department of the Fire Brigade."
"Victoria, Hongkong, 23rd January, 1877.”
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(Signed,) J. GARDINER AUSTIN, Colonial Secretary.”
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Read a first time a Bill to authorize the Appropriation of a Supplementary Sum not exceeding Seventy-
four thousand Dollars to defray the Charges of the Year 1876.
His Excellency then moves the second reading of the Companies' Ordinance, 1877.
The Bill is read a second time, and the Council goes into Committee upon the clauses of the Bill.
At clause 37, His Excellency draws the attention of Honourable Members to the wide application which the wording of the Section adopted from that of the English Companies' Act permitted, and suggests the expediency of amending it.
After consideration, it is resolved to introduce no amendment at present until it be seen hat course is adopted in England in regard to this point, which had already provoked com-
ent there.
The Bill is then committed, read a third time, and passed, bearing the title of "An Ordi- nance enacted by the Governor of Hongkong, with the advice of the Legislative Council thereof, to amend the Companies' Ordinance, 1865, and to repeal Ordinance No. 4 of 1876,”—being “No. 1 of 1877.”
His Excellency adjourns the Council sine die at 3 P.M.
Read and confirmed, this 17th day of September, 1877.
J. M. D'ALMADA E CASTRO,
Acting Clerk of Councils.
HONGKONG.
ANNO QUADRAGESIMO-PRIMO VICTORIE REGINE.
JOHN POPE HENNESSY, C.M.G., Governor and Commander-in-Chief.
No. 2 of 1877.
J. POPE HENNESSY,
An Ordinance enacted by the Governor of Hongkong, with the advice of the Legislative Council thereof, to authorize the Appropriation of a Supplementary Sum not exceeding Seventy-four thousand Dollars to defray the Charges of the Year 1876.
[17th September, 1877.]
Governor.
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HEREAS it has become necessary to make further provision Preamble.
Wfor the public service of the Colony for the year 1876, in
addition to the charge upon the revenue for the service of the said year already provided for in the Estimates submitted to the Legis- lative Council: Be it enacted by the Governor of Hongkong, with the advice of the Legislative Council thereof, as follows