LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL No. 18.
FRIDAY, 4TH MARCH, 1887.
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PRESENT:
HIS EXCELLENCY WILLIAM HENRY MARSH, C.M.G.,
Administering the Government in the absence of His Excellency SIR GEORGE FERGUSON BOWEN, G.C.M.G.
His Honour the Chief Justice, (SIR GEORGE PHILLIPPO, Knt.)
The Honourable the Acting Colonial Secretary, (FREDERICK STEWART.)
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the Acting Attorney General, (EDWARD JAMES ACKROYD.)
the Colonial Treasurer, (ALFRED LISTER.)
HENRY GEORGE THOMSETT, R.N.
PHINEAS RYRIE.
WONG SHING.
JOHN BELL-IRVING, (vice the Honourable WILLIAM KESWICK, on leave). ALEXANDER PALMER MACEWEN, (vice the Honourable THOMAS JACKSON,
on leave).
CATCHICK PAUL CHATER, (vice the Honourable FREDERICK DAVID SAS-
SOON, on leave).
ABSENT:
The Honourable the Surveyor General, (JOHN MACNEILE PRICE.), by leave.
The Council met pursuant to adjournment.
The Minutes of the Meetings held on the 18th and 19th ultimo, respectively, were read and confirmed.
VOTES OF MONEY REFERRED TO THE FINANCE COMMITTEE. Excellency the Officer Administering the Government:-
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-Read the following Minutes by His
W. H. MARSH.
C.S.O. 367 of 1887,
C.S.0. 455 of 1837.
The Officer Administering the Government recommends the Council to vote the sum of $60 being the stipulated increment to the Assistant Warder in the Gaol Hospital, whose salary was $25 rising to $35 per month.
Through some misapprehension the increase was not put down in the Colonial Estimates for this year.
Government House, Hongkong, 1st March, 1887.
W. H. MARSH.
The Officer Administering the Government recommends the Council to re-vote the sum of $660 being the balance due to the Contractor for the Extension of the Cattle Market at Kennedy Town, for which work a sum of $10,000 was voted in 1886.
The amount for which the Contractor undertook to perform this work was $8,133, of which sum only $7,473 were paid in 1886, leaving a balance of $660 due, for which it is necessary to ask the Council for a vote, as the provision made for this object last year has lapsed.
Government House, Hongkong, 3rd March, 1887.
The Acting Colonial Secretary moved that these votes be referred to the Finance Committee. The Treasurer seconded.
Question-put and passed.