50
C.S.O.
1627 of 1859.
EXTRAORDINARY EXPENDiture.
Victoria College.
Cost of desks, bookcases, chairs, etc., for the Masters' rooms and Store-rooms, ......$1,200.00
The Acting Colonial Treasurer seconded.
Question-put and passed.
PAPERS. The Acting Colonial Secretary, by direction of His Excellency the Governor, laid on the table the following papers:-
Despatches respecting the Audit of the Accounts of the Colony. (No. 1).
Report on Public Works that have been completed to date. (No. 4).
OPIUM FARM.-Mr. RYRIE, pursuant to notice, moved the following resolution, and addressed the Council:
That the Executive be requested to lay on the table the existing agreement with the Opium Farmer
and all papers relaring thereto.
Mr. MACEWEN seconded.
His Excellency the Governor replied, and laid on the table a copy of Government Notification No. 293 of the 25th June, 1888, published in a Supplement to the Hongkong Government Gazette of the 23rd June, 1888, containing the conditions of tendering and the form of Grant of the existing Opium Farm.
BILL ENTITLED AN ORDINANCE TO APPLY A SUM NÓT EXCEEDING ONE MILLION TWO HUNDRED AND NINETY-TWO THOUSAND, EIGHT HUNDRED AND FIFTEEN DOLLARS TO THE PUBLIC SERVICE OF THE YEAR 1890. The Acting Colonial Secretary moved the first reading of this Bill, and laid on the table a copy of the Estimates for 1890.
The Acting Colonial Treasurer seconded.
Question-put and passed.
Bill read a first time.
BILL ENTITLED AN ORDINANCE TO AUTHORISE THE APPROPRIATION OF A SUPPLEMENTARY SUM OF TWO HUNDRED AND NINETY-FIVE THOUSAND AND EIGHTY-SEVEN DOLLARS AND NINETY-NINE CEnts to. DEFRAY THE CHARGES OF THE YEAR 1888.-The Acting Colonial Secretary moved the second reading of this Bill.
The Acting Colonial Treasurer seconded.
Question-put and passed.
Bill read a second time.
The Acting Colonial Secretary then moved that this Bill be referred to the Finance Committee. The Acting Colonial Treasurer seconded.
Question-put and passed.
BILL ENTITLED AN ORDINANCE TO PROVIDE FOR CERTAIN EXPENSES IN RELATION TO PERSONS NATIVES OF OK ORDINARILY RESIDENT IN THE COLONY WHO HAVE BEEN CONVICTED, OR ACQUITTED ON THE GROUND OF INSANITY, BEFORE COURTS EXERCISING JURISDICTION UNDER THE IMPERIAL FOREIGN JURISDICTION ACTS IN FOREIGN COUNTRIES.-The Acting Attorney General moved the second reading of this Bill.
The Acting Colonial Secretary seconded.
Question--put and passed.
Bill read a second time.
The Council then went into Committee on the Bill.
Bill reported without amendment.
The Acting Attorney General then moved that the Bill be read a third time.
The Acting Colonial Secretary seconded.
Question-put and passed.
Bill read a third time.
Question put--that this Bill do pass.
Bill passed, and numbered as Ordinance 30 of 1889.
BILL ENTITLED THE TRADE MARKS ORDINANCE, 1889.-At the suggestion of His Excellency the Governor, the second reading of this Bill was postponed.