LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL No. 20.
THURSDAY, 3RD JULY, 1884.
PRESENT:
HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR (SIR GEORGE FERGUSON BOWEN, G.C.M.G.)
His Honour the Acting Chief Justice (JAMES RUSSELL.)
The Honourable the Acting Colonial Secretary, (FREDERICK STEWART.)
the Attorney General, (Edward LOUGHLIN O'MALLEY.)
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the Colonial Treasurer, (ALFRED LISTER.)
the Surveyor General, (JOHN MACNEILE PRICE.)
HENRY GEORGE THOMSETT, R.N.
PHINEAS RYRIE.
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WILLIAM KESWICK.
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THOMAS JACKSON.
FREDERICK DAVID SASSOON.
WONG SHING.
ABSENT:
His Honour the Chief Justice, (SIR GEORGE PHILLIPPO, Knt.), on leave.
The Honourable the Colonial Secretary, (WILLIAM HENRY MARSH, C.M.G.), on leave.
The Council met in pursuance of adjournment.
Minutes read and confirmed.
VOTE PASSED BY THE FINANCE COMMITTEE.-The Acting Colonial Secretary moved the following Vote passed by the Finance Committee:-
0.8.0.
(Finance Committee, 26th June, 1884.)
1538 of 1884.
Extraordinary Works.
Reclamation at Causeway Bay, being unexpended balance of 1883, revote,...$6,000.00
The Colonial Treasurer seconded.
Question-put and passed.
PAPERS LAID ON THE TABLE.-The Acting Colonial Secretary laid on the Table the following Papers :-
Despatch respecting the charges brought against the Surveyor General's Department by the
Hongkong Telegraph Newspaper.
Report by the Surveyor General on the progress and present position of the Tytám Water-
works, 25th June, 1884.
CLOSING OF THE SESSION.-The Honourable P. RYRIE addressed the Council in the following
terms:-
"Your Excellency, as you are now about to prorogue this the first session of the newly constituted Council, I ask leave to make a few remarks regarding it. I think every one will admit that the progress of business during the session has been most satisfactory. The harmony that has prevailed could not be surpassed, I am sure, in any similar assembly in any part of the world; and I attribute this, first, to the fact that the measures which Your Excellency has brought forward, and the money votes for which you have asked this Council, have been acknowledged by everyone to be for the benefit of the entire public of the colony; and I feel assured that in the expenditure of these votes every possible economy consistent with efficiency will be studied. Much of this harmony has also been due to the genial manner and thorough business qualifications Your Excellency has displayed in conducting the business of the Council. It has been my experience in days gone by in this Council that there has been a certain amount of