No. 6.
115
C.S.0. 367 of 1887.
.C.S.O.
455 of 1887.
REPORT OF PROCEEDINGS
OF THE
FINANCE COMMITTEE,
AT A MEETING HELD IN THE COUNCIL CHAMBER, HONGKONG,
On the 4th March, 1887.
PRESENT:
The Honourable the Acting Colonial Secretary, (FREDERICK STEWART), Chairman. His Honour the Chief Justice (SIR GEORGE PHILLIPPO, Knt.).
The Honourable the Acting Attorney General, (EDWARD JAMES ACKROYD). the Colonial Treasurer, (ALFRED LISTER).
HENRY GEORGE THOMSETT, R.N.
WONG SHING.
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JOHN BELL-IRVING.
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ALEXANDER PALMER MACEWEN.
CATCHICK PAUL CHATER.
ABSENT:
The Honourable the Surveyor General, (JOHN MACNEILE PRICE), by leave.
PHINEAS RYRIE, by leave.
The Committee meet this day at the request of the Acting Colonial Secretary.
The Report of the proceedings of the Meeting held on the 18th ultimo, being taken as read, is confirmed.
ment:
Assistant Gaol Hospital Warder.
(1.) Read the following Minute by His Excellency the Officer Administering the Govern-
W. H. MARSH.
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.
After explanation by the Acting Colonial Secretary, the Committee recommend that the amount be voted.
Extension of the Cattle Market.
(2.) Read the following Minute by His Excellency the Officer Administering the Govern-
ment:-
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.
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The amount for which the Contractor undertook to perform this work was $8,133, 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.
After explanation by the Acting Colonial Secretary, the Committee recommend that the amount be voted.
The Committee then adjourn sine die.
Laid before the Legislative Council on the 11th March, 1887.
Read and confirmed this 11th day of March, 1887.
ARATHOON SETH,
Clerk of Councils.
FREDERICK STEWART,
Chairman.