LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL No. 1.
THURSDAY, 28TH FEBRUARY, 1884.
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 Surveyor General, (JOHN MACNEILE PRICE.)
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the Colonial Treasurer, (ALFRED LISTER).
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the Registrar General, (FREDERICK STEWART, LL.D.) PHINEAS RYRIE.
FRANCIS BULKELEY JOHNSON.
THOMAS JACKSON.
FREDERICK DAVID SASSOON.
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WONG SHING.
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Pursuant to Proclamation, the Council met.
At 4 o'clock P.M., the Acting Clerk of Councils read the Proclamation convening the Council, as follows:-
PROCLAMATION.
[L.S.] G. F. BOWEN.
By His Excellency Sir GEORGE FERGUSON BOWEN, Knight Grand Cross of the Most Distinguished Order of Saint Michael and Saint George, Governor and Commander-in-Chief of the Colony of Hong- kong and its Dependencies, and Vice-Admiral of the same.
In exercise of the powers in me vested as Governor aforesaid, I, Sir GEORGE FERGUSON BOWEN, do hereby proclaim that a Session of the Legislative Council of Hongkong shall commence and be holden for the despatch of business on Thursday, the 28th day of February, 1884, at the hour of four o'clock in the afternoon, in the Legislative Council Chamber, in the City of Victoria, within the said Colony; and the Members of the Legislative Council are hereby required to give their attendance at the said time and place accordingly.
Given under my hand and the public seal of the Colony, at Government House, this 26th day of February, 1884.
By Command,
GOD SAVE THE QUEEN!
W. H. MARSH,
Colonial Secretary.
His Excellency the Governor came into the Council Chamber, and having desired the Honourable Members to be seated, was pleased to speak as follows:-
HONOURABLE GENTLEMEN OF THE LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL,
1. It is with feelings of much pleasure and interest that I now open the first Session of the re- constituted Legislature of Hongkong, and have recourse to your advice and assistance in the adminis- tration of the Government.
2. It will always be one of the most satisfactory reminiscences of my long public career that I have been able to procure a more adequate representation in this Council of the community at large. I am confident that the Government will derive valuable aid from the local knowledge and experience of the Unofficial Members, and I also believe that you will all agree with me that there neither is, nor ought to be, any antagonism between the Official and the Unofficial element in this Legislature. All the Members alike can have no other object but to secure the general welfare, and to advance the * progress of the Colony.