No. 9.
REPORT OF PROCEEDINGS
OF THE
FINANCE COMMITTEE,
AT A MEETING HELD IN THE COUNCIL CHAMBER, HONGKONG,
On the 16th May, 1890.
109
C.5.0. 589 of 1890.
PRESENT:
The Honourable the Acting Colonial Secretary, (WALTER MEREDITH DEANE), Chairman.
the Attorney General, (WILLIAM MEIGH GOODMAN).
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the Surveyor General, (SAMUEL BROWN).
the Acting Registrar General, (NORMAN GILBERT MITCHELL-INNES). PHINEAS RYRIE.
ALEXANDER PALMER MACEWEN.
CATCHICK PAUL CHATER.
JAMES JOHNSTONE KESWICK.
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HO KAI, M.B., C.M.
ABSENT:
The Honourable the Colonial Treasurer, (ALFRED Lister).
The Committee meet at the request of the Acting Colonial Secretary.
The Minutes of the last Meeting, held on the 9th May, were read and confirmed.
Read the following Minute by His Excellency the Officer Administering the Govern-
ment:-
F. FLEMING.
The Officer Administering the Government recommends the Council to vote the sum of Two thousand Three hundred and Thirty-four Dollars and One Cent, ($2,334.01), as an addi- tional sum to the vote of $12,000 passed by the Council on the 12th March, last, to meet expenses connected with the visit to the Colony of Their Royal Highnesses THE DUKE AND DUCHESS OF Connaught.
Government House, Hongkong, 9th May, 1890.
After explanation by the Acting Colonial Secretary, the Committee recommend that the amount in the above Minute be voted.
The Committee is then adjourned sine die.
Laid before the Legislative Council on the 30th May, 1890.
Read and confirmed on the 30th May, 1890.
F. A. HAZELAND, Acting Clerk of Councils.
W. M. DEANE,
Chairman.