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THE HONGKONG
Government Gazette.
No. 39.
Published by Authority.
VICTORIA, SATURDAY, 27TH SEPTEMBER, 1873.
VOL. XIX.
VOTES AND PROCEEDINGS OF THE LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL OF HONGKONG.
No. 17 or 1873.
TUESDAY, 26TH AUGUST, 1873.
PRESENT:
His Excellency Governor SIR ARTHUR EDWARD KENNEDY, K.C.M.G., C.B.
The Honorable the Chief Justice (JOHN SMALE).
The Honorable the Acting Colonial Secretary (CECIL CLEMENTI SMITH).
The Honorable the Acting Treasurer (CHARLES MAY).
The Honorable PHINEAS RYRIE.
The Honorable RICHARD ROWETT.
The Honorable WILLIAM HASTINGS ALEXANDER.
The Honorable JAMES WHittall.
ABSENT:
The Honorable the Attorney General (JULIAN PAUNCEFOTE),-absent from indisposition.
The Honorable HENRY JOHN BALL,-absent on leave.
The Council meets this day at 2.30 P.M., pursuant to adjournment.
The Minutes of the Council held on the 19th August, are read and confirmed.
His Excellency lays on the Table a Statement of the Special Fund Account to the 30th June, 1873. His Excellency states that he has received a Despatch from the Secretary of State, covering Reports from Mr. RAWLINSON, Mr. MOORSOM, and Mr. PRICE (the present Surveyor General), on the means of improving the Watce supply of the City, and that those papers together with a further Report which Mr. PRICE is drawing up, will be submitted in due course to the Council.
Read a Despatch from the Secretary of State, No. 96 of the 11th July, respecting the establishment of Light-houses in the Colony, with remarks as to the means of meeting the expenditure, and raising a revenue for their maintenance.
This work, His Excellency says, will also be referred to the Surveyor General, and at a future date his Report and Estimate of the service will be laid before the Council.
Read a first time, a Bill to requlate and define the Practice of Barristers and Attorneys admitted and
enrolled by the Supreme Court, and to amend the Law in relation thereto.
His Excellency moves that the Appropriation Bill for 1874 be read a second time.
The Honorable PHINEAS RYNIE moves, that the second reading of the Bill be postponed for one week. No Member seconding the Motion for postponement,--the original Question is put and carried. The Appropriation Bill is read a second time.
The Honorable PHINEAS RYRIE here puts in the following Notice in writing, addressed to the Clerk
of Councils:
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"I give notice of Protest, to the effect that I have not had sufficient time to completely master the Estimates."