No. 10.
REPORT OF PROCEEDINGS
OF THE
FINANCE COMMITTEE,
AT A MEETING HELD IN THE COUNCIL CHAMBER, HONGKONG,
On the 20th November, 1889.
PRESENT:
The Honourable the Acting Colonial Secretary, (A. LISTER), Chairman.
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the Acting Attorney General, (ANDREW JOHN LEACH).
the Acting Colonial Treasurer, (HENRY ERNEST WODEHOUSE, C.M.G.).
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the Acting Registrar General, (NORMAN GILBERT MITCHELL-INNES).
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the Surveyor General, (SAMUEL Brown).
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PHINEAS RYRIE.
WONG SHING.
CATCHICK PAUL CHATER.
BENDYSHE LAYTON, (vice the Honourable ALEXANDER PALMER MACEWEN).
ABSENT:
The Honourable JAMES JOHNSTONE KESWICK, (vice the Honourable JOHN BELL-IRVING).
1359 of 1889.
C.S.O.
1988 of 1889.
The Committee meet at the request of the Acting Colonial Secretary.
The Minutes of the last Meeting, held on the 18th June last, having been taken as read, are confirmed.
Read the following Minutes by His Excellency the Governor :--
G. WILLIAM DES VEUX.
(1.)
The Governor recommends the Council to vote the sum of Eight hundred and Five Dollars for repairing damages caused to the Public Gardens by the rainstorm of the 29th and 30th May last.
Government House, Hongkong, 2nd July, 1889.
G. WILLIAM DES VEUX.
(2.)
The Governor recommends the Council to vote the sum of One thousand Dollars for concreting a portion of the walks in the Public Gardens.
This amount will be taken from the unexpended balance of $2,500, voted in the Estimates for Tree planting which has become available owing to the failure of the Contractor to complete his agreement.
Government House, Hongkong, 10th October, 1889.
(3.)
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1027 of 1889.
G. WILLIAM DES VEUX.
The Governor recommends the Council to vote the sum of One thousand and Two hundred Dollars as a supplementary vote to defray the cost of desks, bookcases, chairs, &c. for the Masters' rooms and Store-room of Victoria College, omitted from the supplementary vote passed on the 12th April, 1889.
Government House, Hongkong, 14th October, 1889.