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THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 30TH AUGUST, 1873.
Debate ensues.
Amendment put, and Division demanded.
Council divides.
Ayes (6),
Mr. WHITTALL.
Mr. ALEXANDER.
THE ACTING TREASURER.
THE ATTORNEY GENERAL.
THE ACTING COLONIAL SECRETARY.
THE CHIEF JUSTICE.
Amendment carried.
Amended Motion put, and passed.
Noes (2).
Mr. ROWETT.
Mr. RYRIE.
His Excellency lays on the Table a Bill to apply a Sum not exceeding Six hundred and Seventy-two thousand Dollars to the Public Service of the Year 1874, and calls upon the Honorable the Acting Colonial Secretary to give such explanations of the Estimates as might be necessary.
At the request of certain Honorable Members, the explanation of the Estimates is deferred till the next Meeting of the Council.
The Appropriation Bill on the Table is then read a first time.
Read a first time, a Bill to extend to the Colony certain Provisions of an Act of the Imperial Parliament passed in the 22nd and 23rd years of Her Majesty Queen Victoria, Chapter Thirty-five, to amend the Law of Property in relation to Covenants and Conditions in Leases.
The Honorable the Attorney General states the grounds and reasons upon which the Bill is founded. His Excellency adjourns the Council at 5 o'clock, till Tuesday next, the 26th instant, at 2.30 P.M.
A. E. KENNEDY,
Read and confirmed, this 26th Day of August, 1873.
L. D'ALMADA E Castro,
Clerk of Councils.
'Title.
Preamble.
Estimates, 1874.
HONGKONG.
ANNO TRICESIMO SEPTIMO VICTORIE REGINA.
SIR ARTHUR EDWARD KENNEDY, K.C.M.G., C.B., Governor and Commander-in-Chief.
No. 9 OF 1873.
An Ordinance enacted by the Governor of Hongkong, with the Advice of the Legislative Council thereof, to apply a Sum not exceeding Six hundred and Seventy-two thousand Dollars to the Public Service of the Year 1874.
[26th August, 1873.] WHEREAS the Expenditure required for the Service of this
Colony for the Year 1874, has been estimated at the Sum of Six hundred and Seventy-one thousand Eight hundred and Sixty-five Dollars and Sixty Cents: Be it enacted by the Governor of Hongkong, with the Advice of the Legislative Council thereof, as follows:-
I. A Sum not exceeding Six hundred and Seventy-two thousand Dollars shall be, and the same is hereby charged upon the Revenue of this Colony for the Service of the Year 1874, and the said Sum so charged shall be expended as hereinafter specified; that is to
say:-
Governor,
Colonial Secretary,
Colonial Treasurer, Auditor General,
Clerk of Councils,
Surveyor General,
Postmaster General,
Harbor Master,
Registrar General,
ESTABLISHMENTS.
$ C.
740.00 10,280.00 3,072.00
14,599.00
100.00
18,791.00
28,190.00
10,138.00
26,422.00
4,078.00
Carried forward,
-$116,410.00
Collector of Stamp Revenue,
Governor.