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BILL ENTITLED AN ORDINANCE TO AMEND THE REFORMATORY SCHOOLS ORDINANCE, 1886.-The Attorney General moved that the Council do resume consideration in Committee of this Bill.
The Colonial Secretary seconded.
Question-put and passed.
Bill reported with the addition of a clause.
The Attorney General then moved that the Bill be read a third time.
Question-put and passed.
Bill read a third time.
Question put-that this Bill do pass.
Bill passed, and numbered as Ordinance 10 of 1889.
INTERPRETATION SCHEME.-The Colonial Secretary, by direction of His Excellency the Governor, read the following clause in substitution for clause I in Schedule II of the Interpretation scheme laid before the Council at the last meeting :-
"The Governor to appoint 3 Student Interpreters, each to be attached to such Department of the Public Service as to the Governor may seem fit, selection to be made from Residents in the Colony under 16 years of age, who have shown an aptitude for acquiring the Chinese language, and who have distinguished themselves in the higher examinations of any of the Public Schools of the Colony, especially as regards the English Language.'
The Colonial Secretary then moved the following resolution on the subject:-
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That the Scheme of Interpretation indicated in the Governor's Message of the 10th January, 1889, and contained in the Minutes of Council confirmed on the 17th January, 1889, be approved by the Council.
Mr. RYRIE seconded.
Question-put and passed.
ADJOURNMENT.--The Council then adjourned to Thursday, the 24th instant, at 4 P.M.
Read and confirmed, this 28th day of January, 1889.
ARATHOON SETH,
Clerk of Councils.
G. WILLIAM DES VEUX.
Governor.