LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL No. 30.
MONDAY, 23RD MAY, 1887.
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PRESENT:
HIS EXCELLENCY MAJOR-GENERAL WILLIAM GORDON CAMERON, C.B., Administering the Government in the absence of His Excellency SIR GEORGE FERGUSON Bowen, G.C.M.G. His Honour the Acting Chief Justice, (JAMES RUSSELL), vice His Honour SIR GEORGE
PHILLIPPO, Knt., on leave.
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.
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 SASSOON,
on leave).
ABSENT:
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The Honourable the Surveyor General, (JOHN MACNEILE PRICE), by indisposition.
PHINEAS RYRIE, on leave.
The Council met pursuant to notice.
The Minutes of the last Meeting, held on the 13th instant, were read and confirmed.
VOTE OF MONEY REFERRED TO THE FINANCE COMMITTEE.-Read the following Minute by His Excellency the Officer Administering the Government.
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2853 of 1886.
W. G. CAMERON.
The Officer Administering the Government recommends the Council to vote the sum of $600 to be distributed among the original owners of cultivated lands at Little Hongkong, by way of compensation for loss sustained by them, by the resumption of a portion of their ground, which was included in the large plot at Deep Bay recently sold.
The Officer Administering the Government, although not recognizing the right of these original owners to any compensation whatever, yet, under the particular circumstances of the case, and as a matter of charity, recommends that a gratuity be distributed among them, to be charged against Premia on Land sales.
Government House, Hongkong, 23rd May, 1887.
The Acting Colonial Secretary moved that this vote be referred to the Finance Committee.
The Treasurer seconded.
Question-put and passed.
VOTE OF MONEY PASSED BY THE FINANCE COMMITTEE. The Acting Colonial Secretary, by direction of His Excellency the Officer Administering the Government, laid upon the table the Report. of the proceedings of the Finance Committee, dated the 13th instant, (No. 1), and moved that the following sum referred to therein be voted:--
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948 of iss. Press for keeping the Magistracy Records,
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The Treasurer seconded.
Question-put and passed.
$150.00