No. 13.
117
REPORT OF PROCEEDINGS
OF THE
FINANCE COMMITTEE,
AT A MEETING HELD IN THE COUNCIL CHAMBER, HONGKONG,
On the 23rd June, 1890.
PRESENT:
The Honourable the Acting Colonial Secretary, (WALTER MEREDITH DEANE, C.M.G.), Chairman.
the Attorney General, (WILLIAM MEIGH GOODMAN).
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the Acting Colonial Treasurer, (HENRY ERNEST WODEHOUSE, C.M.G.). the Surveyor General, (SAMUEL BROWN).
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the Acting Registrar General, (NORMAN GILBERT MITCHELL-Innes). PHINEAS RYRIE.
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ALEXANDER PALMER MACEWEN.
JAMES JOHNSTONE KESWICK.
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HO KAI, M.B., C.M.
ABSENT:
C.S.O.
1366 and 173
The Honourable CATCHICK PAUL CHATER.
The Committee meet at the request of the Acting Colonial Secretary.
The Minutes of the last Meeting, held on the 16th 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 of 1890. Five thousand Eight hundred and Forty-four Dollars and Twelve Cents, ($5,844.12), for the construction of a telegraph line between the Observatory at Kowloon and the Office of the Telegraph Company at Hongkong.
Also a separate line from Victoria Peak to Central Police Station to transmit meteoro- logical telegrams six times a day.
Cost of line, including submarine cable to Kowloon, (£900), ...$ 5,383.18 Cost of Instruments for Kowloon,.
Line from Peak to Police Station,.
260.94
$ 5,644.12
200.00
$5,844,12
C.S.O.
1165 of 1890.
Government House, Hongkong, 14th June, 1890.
F. FLEMING.
(2.)
The Officer Administering the Government recommends the Council to vote a sum of Eighty-two Dollars and Sixty-six cents, ($82.66), for rent of 1st floor of a Chinese house occupied by Scavengers of the Central Market.
From 23rd March to 30th November, 1890, at $10 per month.
Government House, Hongkong, 19th 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 30th June, 1890.
Read and confirmed on the 30th June, 1890.
F. A. HAZELAND, Acting Clerk of Councils.
W. M. DEANE,
Chairman.
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