No. 12.
REPORT OF PROCEEDINGS
OF THE
FINANCE COMMITTEE,
AT A MEETING HELD IN THE COUNCIL CHAMBER, HONGKONG,
On the 16th June, 1890.
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C. O. Desp. 31 of 1890.
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3306 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.
HO KAI, M.B., C.M.
ABSENT:
The Honourable the Colonial Treasurer, (ALFRED LISTER).
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JAMES JOHNSTONE KESWICK.
The Committee meet at the request of the Acting Colonial Secretary.
The Minutes of the last Meeting, held on the 9th June, having been taken as read are confirmed.
Read the following Minutes by His Excellency the Officer Administering the Govern-
ment:
F. FLEMING.
(1.)
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.
After explanation by the Acting Colonial Secretary, the Committee recommend that the amounts be voted.
The Committee is then adjourned sine die.
Laid before the Legislative Council on the 23rd June, 1890.
Read and confirmed on the 23rd June, 1890.
F. A. HAZELAND,
Acting Clerk of Councils.
W. M. DEANE,
Chairman.