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THE HONGKONG
Government Gazette.
No. 29.
Published by Authority.
VICTORIA, SATURDAY, 10TH JULY, 1875.
VOL. XXI.
VOTES AND PROCEEDINGS OF THE LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL OF HONGKONG.
No. 5 of 1875.
TUESDAY, 29TH JUNE, 1875.
PRESENT:
His Excellency the Administrator (JOHN GARDINER AUSTIN).
The Honorable the Chief Justice (SIR JOHN SMALE).
The Honorable the Acting Colonial Secretary (CECIL CLEMENTI SMITH).
The Honorable the Attorney General (JOHN BRAMSTON).
The Honorable the Acting Colonial Treasurer (CHARLES MAY).
The Honorable PHINEAS RYRIE.
The Honorable WILLIAM HASTINGS ALEXANDER.
The Honorable HENRY Lowcock.
The Honorable JAMES WHITTALL.
ABSENT:
The Council meets this day at 2.30 P.M., by Special Summons.
The Minutes of the Council held on the 8th April, 1875, are read and confirmed.
His Excellency informs the Council that the Secretary of State has been pleased, on reconsideration,
to sanction a grant of £400 to the children of the late Mr. Douglas.
Read a first time a Bill to authorize the Appropriation of a Supplementary Sum not exceeding One
hundred and Fifty thousand Dollars to defray the Charges of the year 1874.
Read a first time a Bill to provide for Public and Bank Holidays.
The Honorable the Attorney General states that this Bill is adopted from the Bank Holidays' Act, 1871, and from a similar Ordinance in force in the Mauritius, and that its object is to regulate by Law and give legal sanction to the closing of the Banks in the Colony on certain days in the year.
Read a first time a Bill to license Small Passenger Steamers, and for other purposes.
The Attorney General explains the objects of the measure.
Read a first time a Bill for the more effectual Protection of Her Majesty's Naval Stores, and for the
Regulation of Pawnbrokers' Licences.
The Attorney General explains that owing to certain alterations which have been made at Home in the law for the regulation of the state of Naval Stores, it has been deemed advisable to amend the local laws on the same subject, and to assimilate them to those in force at home. Read a first time a Bill to provide for the Devolution of the Site of Saint Paul's College, and to provide
Means for altering the Statutes of the said College.
The Attorney General explains the objects of the Bill which had become necessary by the revocation of the Letters Patent under which the Bishopric of Victoria was constituted.
The Acting Colonial Secretary moves that a sum of $9,000 be voted for the repair of damages occa-
sioned by the storm on the night of the 31st May.
Amount voted.