THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 15TH AUGUST, 1874.
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His Excellency then adjourns the Council at a quarter past 5 o'clock, till to-morrow, the 11th instant,
at 2.30 P.M.
Read and confirmed, this 11th Day of August, 1874.
L. D'ALMADA e Castro,
A. E. KENNEDY,
Governor.
Clerk of Councils.
VOTES AND PROCEEDINGS OF THE LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL OF HONGKONG.
No. 8 or 1874.
TUESDAY, 11TH AUGUST, 1874. PRESENT:
His Excellency Governor SIR ARTHUR EDWARD KENNEDY, K.C.M.G., C.B.
The Honorable the Chief Justice (SIR JOHN SMALE).
The Honorable the Colonial Secretary (JOHN GARDINER AUSTIN).
The Honorable the Attorney General (JOHN BRAMSTON).
The Honorable the Acting Treasurer (CECIL CLEMENTI SMITH).
The Honorable RICHARD ROWETT.
The Honorable JAMES WHITTALL.
The Honorable PHINEAS RYRIE.
ABSENT:
The Honorable WILLIAM HASTINGS ALEXANDER,-absent on leave. The Council meets this day at 2.30 P.M., pursuant to adjournment. The Minutes of the Council held yesterday, are read and confirmed.
The Council resolves itself into Committee, and resumes the discussion and consideration of the
Merchant Shipping Consolidation Bill, adjourned from the last meeting.
Sections 2, 10, and 11 are recommitted, amended, and agreed to.
Certain other Sections are amended, and several new Clauses are introduced.
It is then agreed that the further consideration of the Bill in Committee be postponed till the next meeting of the Council.
His Excellency adjourns the Council at a quarter before 5 o'clock, till to-morrow, the 12th instant, at
2.30 P.M.
Read and confirmed, this 12th Day of August, 1874.
L. D'ALMADA E CASTRO,
Clerk of Councils.
A. E. KENNEDY,
Governor.
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HONGKONG.
ANNO TRICESIMO OCTAVO
VICTORIA REGINA.
SIR ARTHUR EDWARD KENNEDY, K.C.M.G., C.B., Governor and Commander-in-Chief.
No. 4 of 1874.
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 Thirty-two thousand Dollars to defray the Charges of the Year 1873.
[10th August, 1874.]
Title.
WHEREAS it has become necessary to make further Provision Preamble.
for the Public Service of the Colony for the Year 1873, 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:-