LOIT.
THE HONGKONG
Government Gazette.
No. S.
Published by Authority.
VICTORIA, SATURDAY, 25TH FEBRUARY, 1871.
VOL. XVII.
VOTES AND PROCEEDINGS OF THE LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL OF HONGKONG.
No. 11 OF 1870.
FRIDAY, 11TH NOVEMBER, 1870.
PRESENT:
His Excellency Major-General WHITFEILD, Lieutenant-Governor. The Honorable the Chief Justice, (JOHN SMALE.)
The Honorable the Colonial Secretary, (JOHN GARDINer Austin.) The Honorable the Attorney General, (JULIAN PAUNCÈFOTE.)
The Honorable the Colonial Treasurer, (FREDERICK H. A. FORTH.) The Honorable HENRY JOHN BALL.
The Honorable PHINEAS RYRIE.
ABSENT:
The Honorable the Auditor General, (WILLIAM HEPBURN RENNE. )
The Honorable HUGH BOLD Gibb.
The Honorable WILLIAM KESWICK.
The Council meets this day at 3 P.M. by Special Summons,-no Meeting having taken place on the
27th of October, to which day the Council was adjourned.
The Minutes of the Council held on the 14th of October, are read and confirmed.
The Colonial Estimates for 1871, together with the Appropriation Bill, and the Special Fund Account
from 1st January to 30th September, 1870, are laid on the Table.
The Appropriation Bill for 1871, is read a Second time, and the Council goes into Committee upon the Estimates for the said year,-which are explained by The Honorable The Colonial
Secretary.
The following Votes are then agreed to:
CIVIL DEPARTMENTS:---
Governor,
Colonial Secretary, Colonial Treasurer, Auditor General, Clerk of Councils, Surveyor General, Postmaster General,
$ C.
740.00 11,156.00 4,910.00 14,087.00
100.00
20,060.00
33,054.00
11,238.00
Registrar General,
*
29,947.60
Harbor Master,.
4,450.00
Collector of Stamp Revenue,
9,948.00
JUDICIAL DEPARTMENTS, •
192.00
REGISTRAR OF COMPANIES' DEPARTMENT,.
1,134.00
ECCLESIASTICAL
DEPARTMENT,
14,292.00
EDUCATIONAL-
do.,
24.316.00
MEDICAL
do.,
6,748.00
POLICE MAGISTRATES'
do.,
172,895.20
POLICE
do.,
42,041.00
GAOL
do.,
7,270.00
FIRE BRIGADE.
do.,
1,256.00
CHARITABLE ALLOWANCES, -
TRANSPORT,
WORKS AND BUILDINGS,
ROADS, STREETS AND BRIDOES,
4,500.00 119,000.00 31,000.00