LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL, No. S.
WEDNESDAY, 9TH APRIL, 1890.
PRESENT:
HIS EXCELLENCY THE OFFICER ADMINISTERING THE GOVERNMENT
(The Honourable FRANCIS FLEMING, C.M.G.).
The Honourable the Acting Colonial Secretary, (WALTER MEREDITH DEANE).
the Attorney General, (WILLIAM MEIGH GOODMAN).
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the Colonial Treasurer, (ALFRED LISTER).
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the Surveyor General, (SAMUEL BROWN).
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the Acting Registrar General, (NORMAN GILBERT MITCHELL-INNES, vice the
Honourable WALTER MEREDITH DEANE).
ALEXANDER PALMER MACEWEN.
CATCHICK PAUL CHATER.
JAMES JOHNSTONE KESWICK, (vice the Honourable JOHN BELL-IRVING). Ho KAI, M.B., C.M.
The Honourable PHINEAS RYRIE.
ABSENT:
The Council met pursuant to adjournment.
The Minutes of the last Meeting, held on the 26th March, were read and confirmed.
His Excellency informed the Council that His Royal Highness the DUKE OF CONNAUGHT desired him to inform the Council and the public generally that he and Her Royal Highness the DUCHESS of Connaught were both much gratified with the kind welcome accorded to them during their late visit to the Colony.
REPORTS.—The Acting Colonial Secretary laid on the table the report of the Superintendent of the Gaol for 1889, and a Statement of Treasury receipts and payments for 1889.
VOTES REFERRED TO THE FINANCE COMMITTEE.-Read the following Minutes by His Excellency the Officer Administering the Government :--
C.S.O. 294 of 1890.
C.5.0.
611 of 1890.
F. FLEMING.
(1.)
The Officer Administering the Government recommends the Council to vote the sum of Nine hundred and Ninety-one Dollars, and Fifty-seven Cents ($991.57) being cost of repairing the Telegraph Cable between North Point and Kowloon-damaged by some vessel's anchor dragging various cables together and entangling them.
Government House, Hongkong, 28th March, 1890..
F. FLEMING.
(2.)
The Officer Administering the Government recommends the Council to vote the sum of One thousand Nine hundred and Two Dollars, and Twenty-seven Cents ($1,902.27) to enable the Sanitary Board to pay the expenses incurred in suppressing the recent Cattle Epidemic.
The sum asked for is thus made up :-
Compensation for Cattle and Fodder destroyed, Slaughtering and disposal of carcasses,
Disinfecting and cleansing sheds,
Government House, Hongkong, 8th April, 1890.
.$1,820.50
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$1,902.27
The Acting Colonial Secretary moved that these Votes be referred to the Finance Committee. The Treasurer seconded.
His Excellency addressed the Council on the vote for compensation in connection with the recent Cattle Epidemic.
Question-put and passed.