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F. FLEMING.
(4.)
The Officer Administering the Government recominends the Council to vote a sum of Sixty Dollars, ($60), being additional salary to First Wardmaster in the Government Civil Hospital at $10 per month, for Six months of 1890.
The agreement being $70 per month for the first year, $80 per month for the second year, and $90 per month for the third year.
Government House, Hongkong, 5th June, 1890.
The Acting Colonial Secretary moved that these Minutes be referred to the Finance Committee. The Attorney General seconded.
His Excellency addressed the Council on the Minutes in connection with the salary of the Musketry Instructor and Storekeeper of Police, the drainage of the Italian Convent, and the additional salary to the First Wardmaster to the Government Civil Hospital.
Question--put and agreed to.
VOTES PASSED BY THE FINANCE COMMITTEE.-The Acting Colonial Secretary, by direction of His Excellency the Officer Administering the Government, laid on the table the Report of the Finance Committee, dated the 30th ultimo, (No. 10), and moved that the following Votes referred to therein be passed, viz.:-
C.5.0. 476 of 1890.
Works in the Wongneichung Valley, inside the Race Course,
............$ 8,000,00
Additional sum required to defray the salaries and rations of Nursing Staff for the
Civil Hospital, for six months of 1890, viz. :-
Additional Salaries :-
1 Head Nurse, 6 months,
5 Nurses, (one new), 6 months,
$
60.00
360.00
1 Amah, 6 months,
24.00
$
444.00
Rations for one more Nurse, 6 months,.
90.00
$
534.00
1833 of 1889. Expenses incurred in carrying out an experiment as to the possibility of success-
fully and economically cultivating in the Colony bovine vaccine lymph,.
$
230.80
C.S.O.
86 of 1890. Compassionate allowance to Mrs. MACBEAN, widow of the late Bailiff and Hindus- tani Interpreter in the Supreme Court, being the equivalent of 7 months' salary of her late husband, who was in the service of the Colony for Twenty-three years, and gave great satisfaction in the discharge of his duties.
875.00
The Attorney General seconded.
Question-put and agreed to.
The Council then went into Committee to consider the Report of the Special Committee to frame New Standing Rules and Orders.
The Attorney General moved and the Acting Colonial Secretary seconded that the four last paragraphs in Rule 28 be struck out.
Question-put and agreed to.
The Attorney General moved and the Acting Colonial Secretary seconded that at the end of Rule 40 the following words be added: "unless at this stage of the proceedings the Bill be referred to a Special or Standing Committee."
Question--put and agreed to.
The Attorney General moved and the Acting Colonial Secretary seconded that the following additional Rule be inserted after Rule 40:-
"When a Bill shall have been referred to, and reported on by, one of the Standing Com- mittees appointed under Rule 48, and it shall be certified by the Chairman of such Standing Committee that such Bill has been considered clause by clause in the presence of all the Members of such Standing Committee at least and that, in the opinion of the Committee, such Bill may be dealt with by the Council in the same manner as a Bill reported on by a Committee of the whole Council, such Bill may be dealt with accordingly if no Member object, but if any Member object the Bill shall be dealt with in the same manner as a Bill reported on by a Special Committee."
Question-put and agreed to.
The Council then resumed.