LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL, No. 16.
MONDAY, 16TH JUNE, 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).
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the Attorney General, (WILLIAM MEIGH GOODMAN),
the Surveyor General, (SAMUEL BROWN).
the Acting Registrar General, (NORMAN GILBERT MITCHELL-INNES). PHINEAS RYRIE.
ALEXANDER PALMER MACEWEN.
CATCHICK PAUL CHATER.
JAMES JOHNSTONE KESWICK.
Ho KAI, M.B., C.M.
ABSENT:
The Honourable the Colonial Treasurer, (ALFRED LISTER), on account of sickness.
The Council met pursuant to adjournment.
The Minutes of the last Meeting, held on the 9th June, were read and confirmed.
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Read the following Minutes under the hand of His Excellency the Officer Administering the Government :—
F. FLEMING.
(1.)
C. O. Desp. 31 of 1890.
C.S.0.
3306 of 1890.
The Officer Administering the Government recommends the Council to vote a sum of Three thousand Dollars, ($3,000), to cover the probable expenses of this year in connection with the proposed trigonometrical survey of Hongkong by Officers of the Royal Engineers.
The total probable cost will be about £3,000.
Government House, Hongkong, 7th June, 1890.
F. FLEMING.
(2.)
The Officer Administering the Government recommends the Council to vote a sum of "Three thousand Dollars, ($3,000), being amount required to be expended in this year for the
printing and binding of 200 copies of the new edition of Ordinances of Hongkong.
The total cost will be about $6,000.
Government House, Hongkong, 9th June, 1890.
The Acting Colonial Secretary moved that these Minutes, be referred to the Finance Committee. The Attorney General seconded.
His Excellency addressed the Council on the Minute in connection with the proposed trigonome- trical survey of the Colony.
Question-put and agreed to.
VOTES PASSED BY THE FINANCE COMMITTEE.-The Acting Colonial Secretary, by direction of His Excellency the Officer Administering the Government, laid on the table the Report of the Finance Committee, dated the 9th June, (No. 11), and moved that the following Votes referred to therein be passed, viz. :-
C.S.O. 1247 of 1890.
For the salary of Musketry Instructor and Storekeeper of Police,
....$ 420.67
Half
pay during the voyage, and full pay from the date of his arrival at $60 per month. From 10th April to 22nd May half pay.
year
From 23rd May to end of the
full pay. Improving the drainage of the Italian Convent,..
.$ 500.00
Compassionate allowance to the mother of the late Chinese Police Constable No. 265,
KEUNG TIM,.
.$ 63.00
Additional salary to First Wardmaster in the Government Civil Hospital at $10 per
month, for Six months of 1890,
...$
60.00
The Attorney General seconded.
Question-put and agreed to.