LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL, No. 22.
No.:22. -
MONDAY, 9TH NOVEMBER, 1891.
PRESENT:
HIS EXCELLENCY THE OFFICER ADMINISTERING THE GOVERNMENT (Major-General G. DIGBY BARKER, C.B.).
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The Honourable the Acting Colonial Secretary, (WILLIAM MEIGH GOODMAN).
the Acting Attorney General, (ANDREW JOHN LEACH).
the Registrar General, (JAMES HALDANE STEWART LOCKHART).
the Colonial Treasurer, (NORMAN GILBERT MITCHELL-INNES).
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the Acting Surveyor General, (FRANCIS ALFRED COOPER). ·
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the Acting Harbour Master, (WILLIAM CHARLES HOLLAND HASTINGS).
PHINEAS RYRIE.
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CATCHICK PAUL CHATER.
HO KAI, M.B., C.M.
THOMAS HENDERSON WHITEHEAD.
ABSENT:
The Honourable JAMES JOHNSTONE KESWICK.
The Council met pursuant to adjournment.
The Acting Harbour Master took the oath of allegiance on his appointment, provisionally, to a seat on the Council.
The Minutes of the last Meeting, held on the 2nd November, 1891, were read and confirmed. PAPERS LAID ON THE TABLE. The Acting Colonial Secretary, by command of His Excellency the Officer Administering the Government, laid on the table the Report of the Acting Superintendent of the Fire Brigade for 1890. (No. 35 of 1891.)
The Registrar General laid on the table and moved that the Council approve of Bye-laws made by the Sanitary Board under Sub-section 12 of Section 13 of Ordinance No. 12 of 1887, and Sub- section (d.) of Section 1 of Ordinance No. 26 of 1890, and amended by the Board on the 6th of November,
1891.
Honourable Ho KAI seconded.
Question-put and agreed to.
VOTE 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 2nd November, (No. 12), and moved that the following Vote referred to therein be passed, viz.:-
207 of 1891.
CODE: A sum of Six hundred Dollars to cover the increase to the salary of the Harbour Master, so as to bring his salary from $4,800 to $5,400 per annum, from 1st January last, as approved by the Secretary of State,....
The Colonial Treasurer seconded.
Question-put and agreed to.
Vote passed.
..$ 600.00
The Honourable T. H. WHITEHEAD moved the following resolution :-
That in view of the opinions expressed at the meeting of the International Congress of Hygiene and Demography held in London on 11th August last the Government appoint a Commission composed of medical men to investigate and report on the whole subject of Quarantine and Quarantine Regulations and as to the advisability or otherwise of retaining Section 25 in the proposed new Ordinance to consolidate and amend the laws relating to Merchant Shipping.
Hon. P. RYRIE seconded.
His Excellency addressed the Council and the resolution was withdrawn. The Honourable T. H. WHITEHEAD asked the following questions:-
1. As the place formerly set apart to be a Lazaretto, viz., "That part of the northern shore of
"Stone-cutters' İsland which is bounded and contained by a line of yellow posts
" has been abandoned, the hulk "Hygeia" having as stated in this Council by the Honourable the Acting Colonial Secretary on 19th October, 1891, been completed and substituted for it, in accordance with arrangements made last year with the concurrence of the Secretary of State, but as this arrangement does not provide for the removal from ships of persons other than those actually suffering from infectious or contagious disease, will the Government inform the Council what provision Government has made, or what provision does Government propose to make, if any, for the suitable detention of passenger's and other persons arriving in the waters of the port in vessels subject to Quarantine.