LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL No 11.
WEDNESDAY, 11TH FEBRUARY, 1885.
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PRESENT:
HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR ·
(SIR GEORGE FERGUSON BOWEN, G.C.M.G.)
His Honour the Chief Justice, (SIR GEORGE PHILLIPPO, Knt.)
The Honourable the Colonial Secretary, (WILLIAM HENRY MARSH, C.M.G.)
the Attorney General, (EDWARD LOUGHLIN O'MALLEY.)
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the Colonial Treasurer, (ALFRED LISTER.)
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the Surveyor General, (JOHN MACNEILE PRICE.)
the Registrar General (FREDERICK STEWART, LL.D.) PHINEAS RYRIE.
WILLIAM KESWICK.
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THOMAS JACKSON.
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FREDERICK DAVID SASSOON.
WONG SHING.
The Council met in pursuance of adjournment.
Minutes read and confirmed.
PAPERS. The Colonial Secretary laid on the table the Correspondence relative to the renewal of the Postal Contract and the question of Mail subsidy.
VOTES OF MONEY REFERRED TO THE FINANCE COMMITTEE.-Read the following Minute by His Excellency the Governor :---
G. F. BOWEN.
The Governor recommends the Council to vote the following sums:-
For surface scavenging the City of Victoria, and the Villages, for 12 months,
commencing from 1st January, 1885,....................
.$18,570.00
Although this sum will be amply covered by the receipts for the privilege of removing excretal matters, see annexed Memorandum, the Treasury instructions require all Expenditure to be voted.
Statement regarding the removal of Excretal Matters, and General Surface Scavenging.
REVENUE.
For the privilege of removing Night-soil from the City of Victoria, for 12 months,
from 1st January, 1885, the Contractor Ko I, will pay,
EXPENDITURE.
...$18,600.00
For scavenging the City of Victoria, for 12 months, from 1st January, 1885,
the Government to pay to LIN SHAN, .....
$17,760.00
For scavenging the Villages of Yaumáti, Hunghòm, Shaukiwán, Stanley, Aberdeen, and Aplichau, with privilege of removing all Night-soil, the Government to pay to Ko I,.....
810.00
Total,...
.$18,570.00
Government House, 11th February, 1885.
The Colonial Secretary moved that this Minute be referred to the Finance Committee.
The Colonial Treasurer seconded.
Question-put and passed.