No. 9.
REPORT OF PROCEEDINGS
OF THE
FINANCE COMMITTEE,
AT A MEETING HELD IN THE COUNCIL CHAMBER, HONGKONG,
On the 18th June, 1889,
PRESENT:
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The Honourable the Colonial Secretary, (FREDERICK STEWART), Chairman.
the Acting Attorney General, (ANDREW JOHN LEACH).
C. O. Desp.
91 of 1889.
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the Acting Colonial Treasurer, (HENRY ERNEST WODEHOUSE, C.M.G.). the Acting Registrar General, (NORMAN GILBERT MITCHELL-INNES).
the Surveyor General, (SAMUEL BROWN).
PHINEAS RYRIE.
WONG SHING.
CATCHICK PAUL CHATER.
BENDYSHE LAYTON, (vice the Honourable ALEXANDER PALMER MACEWEN).
JAMES JOHNSTONE KESWICK, (vice the Honourable JOHN BELL-IRVING).
The Committee meet at the request of the Colonial Secretary.
The Minutes of the last Meeting, held on the 27th ultimo, having been taken as read, are confirmed.
Read the following Minute by His Excellency the Governor :-
G. WILLIAM DES VEUX.
The Governor recommends the Council to vote the sum of £100, being a gratuity to the father of the late Police Constable STEPHEN FOX, a member of the Fire Brigade, who lost his life by the falling of a wall during the suppression of a fire in November, 1887.
Government House, Hongkong, 8th June, 1889.
After explanation by the Colonial Secretary, the Committee recommend that this amount be voted.
The Committee then adjourn sine die.
Laid before the Legislative Council on the 25th June, 1889.
Read and confirmed on the 20th November, 1889.
ARATHOON SETH,
Clerk of Councils.
A. LISTER, Chairman.