LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL, No. 15.
MONDAY, 9TH JUNE, 1890.
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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 Surveyor General, (SAMUEL BROWN).
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the Acting Registrar General, (NORMAN GILBERT MITCHELL-INNES). PHINEAS RYRIE.
CATCHICK PAUL CHATER.
JAMES JOHNSTONE KESWICK.
Ho KAI, M.B., C.M.
ABSENT:
The Honourable the Colonial Treasurer, (ALFRED LISTER), on account of sickness.
ALEXANDER PALMER MACEWEN.
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The Council met pursuant to adjournment.
The Minutes of the last Meeting, held on the 30th May, were read and confirmed.
His Excellency addressed the Council and stated that he had received a letter from certain merchants in the Colony drawing his attention to the fact that the Viceroy of Canton contemplated raising the duty on opiun contrary to what was considered the terms of the Chefoo Convention. Mr. ALABASTER, the Consul at Canton, had been communicated with and he had done everything in his power in connection with the subject. His Excellency further stated that he had telegraphed to Her Majesty's Minister at Peking on the subject. The reply which had been received was to the effect that representations had been made to the Chinese Government on the subject of the contemplate increased duties and that information had been received through the Yamên that the project had been abandoned. The Acting Colonial Secretary laid on the table a despatch from the Secretary of State regarding the Estimates for 1890.
Read the following Minutes under the hand of His Excellency the Officer Administering the Government :-
F. FLEMING.
(1.)
C.S.O.
1247 of 1890.
The Officer Administering the Government recommends the Council to vote a sum of Four hundred and Twenty Dollars and Sixty-seven cents, ($420.67), for the salary of Musketry Instructor and Storekeeper of Police.
Half pay during the voyage, and full pay from the date of his arrival at $60 per month. From 10th April to 22nd May half pay.
From 23rd May to end of the year full pay.
Government House, Hongkong, 28th May, 1890.
F. FLEMING.
(2.)
The Officer Administering the Government recommends the Council to vote a sum of Five hundred dollars, ($500), for improving the drainage of Italian Convent.
Government House, Hongkong, 31st May, 1890.
F. FLEMING.
(3.)
The Officer Administering the Government recommends the Council to vote a sum of Sixty-three Dollars, ($63), as a compassionate allowance to the mother of the late Chinese Police Constable No. 265, KEUNG TIM, who served in the Police Force for upwards of 14 years.
The allowance to be equal to one month's pay for every three years of service. Government House, Hongkong, 4th June, 1890.