LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL, No. 5.
MONDAY, 25TH FEBRUARY, 1889.
PRESENT:
HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR (SIR G. WILLIAM DES VEUX, K.C.M.G.)
The Honourable the Colonial Secretary (FREDERICK STEWART).
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The Acting Attorney General, (ANDREW JOHN LEach).
the Acting Colonial Treasurer, (HENRY ERNEST WODEHOUSE, C.M.G.). the Captain Superintendent of Police, (WALTER MEREDITH DEANE).
PHINEAS RYRIE.
WONG SHING.
JOHN BELL-IRVING.
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BENDYSHE LAYTON, (vice the Honourable ALEXANDER PALMER MACEWEN). CATCHICK PAUL CHATER.
ABSENT:
The Honourable the Surveyor General, (JOHN MACNEILE PRICE).
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the Registrar General, (JAMES HALDANE Stewart Lockhart).
The Council met pursuant to notice.
The Minutes of the last Meeting, held on the 28th ultimo, were read and confirmed.
NEW MEMBER.-Mr. ANDREW JOHN LEACH, Acting Attorney General, took the usual Oath and his seat at the Council table.
VOTES OF MONEY PASSED BY THE FINANCE COMMITTEE.-The Colonial Secretary, by direction of His Excellency the Governor, laid upon the table the Report of the proceedings of the Finance Committee (No. 1) dated the 28th January, 1889, and moved that the following items referred to therein be passed:-
EXCESS IN THE ESTIMATES FOR 1889.
·SERVICES EXCLUSIVE OF ESTABLISHMENTS.
Charitable Allowances.
Subscription in aid of the Famine in North China,
.$10,000.00
Extraordinary Public Works.
Furniture for Victoria College, re-vote, New Streets at Kennedytown, re-vote,.... Rain-storm damages during 1888, re-vote,.
.$
896.00
6,700.00
2,261.00
$ 9,857.00
Works and Buildings.
Home for Women and Girls,
Roads, Streets and Bridges.
.$ 3,955.00
.$ 3,750.00
Lower Richmond Road, re-vote,
JURY LIST, 1889.--Strangers having retired by request, the Council proceeded to consider the Jury List for 1889.
The List was duly revised, corrected, and the Special Jurors designated, in terms of section 4 of Ordinance 24 of 1882..
ADJOURNMENT.--The Council then adjourned to Friday, the 1st proximo, at 4 p.m.
Read and confirmed, this 1st day of March, 1889.
ARATHOON SETH,
Clerk of Councils.
G. WILLIAM DEs Vœux,
Governor.