No. 9.
REPORT OF PROCEEDINGS
OF THE
FINANCE COMMITTEE,
AT A MEETING HELD IN THE COUNCIL CHAMBER, HONGKONG,
On the 15th October, 1891.
PRESENT:
The Honourable the Acting Colonial Secretary, (WILLIAM MEIGH GOODMAN), Chairman. the Acting Attorney General, (ANDREW JOHN LEACH).
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the Registrar General, (JAMES HALDANE STEWART LOCKHART).
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the Colonial Treasurer, (NORMAN GILBERT MITCHELL-INNES).
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the Acting Surveyor General, (FRANCIS ALFRED Cooper). PHINEAS RYRIE.
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JAMES JOHNSTONE KESWICK.
Ho KAI, M.B., C.M.
THOMAS HENDERSON WHITEHEAD.
The Honourable CATCHICK PAUL CHATER.
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ABSENT:
The Committee meet at the request of the Acting Colonial Secretary.
The Minutes of the last Meeting held on the 17th July, were read and confirmed.
Read the following Minutes under the hand of His Excellency the Officer Administering the Government :-
G. DIGBY BARKER.
The Officer Administering the Government recommends the Council to vote a sum of Three hundred and Twenty Dollars, ($320), as a Compassionate Allowance to the Widow and children of CHEONG LOI, late First Shroff in the Colonial Treasury.
Government House, Hongkong, 6th October, 1891.
G. DIGBY BARKER.
The Officer Administering the Government recommends the Council to vote a sum of One thousand and Ninety-two Dollars, ($1,092), as a Compassionate Allowance to the children of the late Mr. A. M. PLACE, Senior Marine Officer in the General Post Office, in consideration of their father's twenty-one years' service.
Government House, Hongkong, 16th September, 1891.
G. DIGBY BARKER.
The Officer Administering the Government recommends the Council to vote a sum of One thousand and Six hundred Dollars, ($1,600), for general repairs to the Government Marine Surveyor's Launch Hilda, and providing a launch while the repairs are being executed.
Government House, Hongkong, 29th August, 1891.
G. DIGBY BARKER.
The Officer Administering the Government recommends the Council to vote a sum of Three thousand Dollars, ($3,000), for the repair of St. John's Cathedral Church.
Government House, Hongkong, 11th August, 1891.
G. DIGBY BARKER.
The Officer Administering the Government recommends the Council to vote a sum of Seven thousand and Thirty-seven Dollars, ($7,037), for the repairs to damages caused by the Storm on the 18th and 19th instant, to the Praya wall and roadway in Yaumati, in front of Lots Nos. 215 and 218.
Government House, Hongkong, 29th August, 1891.
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