LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL No. 26.
FRIDAY, 29TH MAY, 1885.
PRESENT:
HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR
(SIR GEORGE FERGUSON BOWEN, G.C.M.G.)
The Honourable the Colonial Secretary, (WILLIAM HENRY MARSH, C.M.G.)
the Attorney General, (EDWARD LOUGHLIN O'MALLEY.)
the Colonial Treasurer, (ALFRED LISTER.)
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the Surveyor General, (JOHN MACNEILE PRICE.)
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the Registrar General (FREDERICK STEWART, LL.D.)
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PHINEAS RYRIE.
THOMAS JACKSON.
FREDERICK DAVID SASSOON.
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WONG SHING.
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ABSENT:
His Honour the Chief Justice, (SIR GEORGE PHILLIPPO, Kat.), (on leave).
The Honourable WILLIAM KESWICK, (on leave).
The Council met pursuant to adjournment.
Minutes read and confirmed.
PEDDER'S WHARF.-The Surveyor General, as Chairman of the Public Works Committee, re- ported to the Council that the Committee had considered His Excellency the Governor's Minute of the 20th instant, respecting the renewal and extension of Pedder's Wharf, and recommended that a new Wooden Pier be erected at the foot of Pedder's Street without delay, at a cost of not exceeding $10,000, $5,000 of which to be voted this year, and the balance to be placed on the Estimates for 1886.
VOTES OF MONEY.--Read the following Minutes by His Excellency the Governor:-
G. F. BOWEN.
C.S.O.
1221 of 1885.
pursuance of the recommendation of the Public Works Committee, the Governor recommends the Council to vote $5,000 to be expended during the current year on the erection of a new and enlarged Wooden Pier at Pedder's Wharf, the cost of which is estimated at $10,000. The balance of this sum will be provided in next year's Estimates.
Government House, May 29th, 1885.
The Governor recommends the Council to vote the following sum :--
C.S.Q. 1108 of 1885.
For the construction of 3 trucks to hold the Nordenfeldt Guns belonging
to the Auxiliary Flotilla when not required for use,.
Government House, May 29th, 1885.
...$ 120.00
The Colonial Secretary stated, with reference to the first Minute, that as the matter had been con- sidered by the Public Works Committee, the Members of which are also members of the Finance Committee, there was no necessity to refer it to the latter Committee. He therefore moved that the vote be passed.
With reference to the second Minute, he also moved that, considering that the item is small, and that this is the last Meeting of the present Session of the Council, the amount be voted without reference to the Finance Committee.
The Colonial Treasurer seconded.
Question--put and passed.
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