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THE HONGKONG
Government Gazette
No. 17.
Published by Authority.
VICTORIA, SATURDAY, 20TH APRIL, 1872.
VOL. XVIII.
VOTES AND PROCEEDINGS OF THE LEGISLATIVE
COUNCIL OF HONGKONG. .
No. 3 of 1872.
FRIDAY, 5TH APRIL, 1872. PRESENT:
His Excellency Governor SIR RICHARD GRAVES MACDONNELL, K.C.M.G., C.B. The Honorable the Acting Chief Justice (HENRY JOHN BALL).
The Honorable the Acting Colonial Secretary (CECIL CLEMENTI SMITH).
The Honorable the Acting Attorney General (THOMAS CHILD HAYLLAR). The Honorable the Acting Treasurer (CHARLES MAY).
The Honorable PHINEAS RYRIE.
The Honorable WILLIAM KESWICK.
The Honorable HENRY Lowcock.
The Honorable JAMES GREIG.
The Council meets this day at 3 P.M., pursuant to adjournment.
The Minutes of the Council held on the 25th March, are read and confirmed. His Excellency refers to the Correspondence which had passed with the Secretary of State in reference to the increase of Salary to the Crown Solicitor, Mr. EDMUND SHARP, which, by Despatch No. 131 of the 27th October, 1871, His Lordship had sanctioned, and which was authorized to take effect from the date of Mr. SHARP'S appointment to the Office on the 25th January, 1871. The Governor then states that in compliance with the Secretary of State's instructions, Mr. SHARP had been paid the arrears due to him from the above date to the 31st December, 1871; and that he has since received Salary at the increased rate of Pay (£500 per annum) to the 31st March, 1872. But when His Excellency allowed the increase thus sanctioned to be paid to Mr. SHARP, no information whatever was placed before him to show that such increase had been originally placed on the Estimates for 1872, and rejected by the Council. This circumstance was only known to His Excellency at the last Meeting, and he now finds that no Report whatever of such rejection (which might have been transmitted at the time by Telegraph) had been made to the Secretary of State.
Discussion follows,
After which, it is moved by the Honorable the Acting Chief Justice, and seconded by the Honorable the Acting Attorney General, that the increase of the Crown Solicitor's Salary as sanctioned by the Secretary of State, be placed on the Supplementary Estimates for 1872.
Debate ensues.
Council divides.
Ayes (3).
ACTING TREASURER.
ACTING ATTORNEY GENERAL.
ACTING CHIEF JUSTICE.
Question put and negatived.
Mr. GREIG.
Noes (5).
Mr. LowcoCK.
Mr. KESWICK.
Mr. RYRIE.
ACTING COLONIAL SECRETARY.
Whereupon, it is moved by the Honorable the Acting Colonial Secretary and seconded by the Honorable WILLIAM KESWICK, that Mr. SHARP be allowed to retain the sum of $1,422.58, which he had received as an increase to his Salary, from the 25th January, 1871, to the 31st March, 1872. Question put and carried.
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