No. 12.
REPORT OF PROCEEDINGS
OF THE
FINANCE COMMITTEE,
AT A MEETING HELD IN THE COUNCIL CHAMBER, HONGKONG,
On the 2nd November, 1891.
PRESENT:
The Honourable the Acting Colonial Secretary, (WILLIAM MEIGH GOODMAN), Chairman.
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). Ho KAI, M.B., C.M.
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THOMAS HENDERSON WHITEHEAD.
The Honourable PHINEAS RYRIE.
C. O. Desp. 207 of 1891.
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CATCHICK PAUL CHATER.
ABSENT:
JAMES JOHNSTONE KESWICK.
The Committee meet at the request of the Acting Colonial Secretary.
The Minutes of the last Meeting held on the 26th October were read and confirmed.
Read the following Minute 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
Six hundred Dollars, ($600), 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.
Government House, Hongkong, 27th October, 1891.
The Acting Colonial Secretary moved that this vote be recommended to be passed by the Council.
The Colonial Treasurer seconded.
Question-put and agreed to.
The Committee is then adjourned.
Laid before the Legislative Council on the 9th November, 1891.
Read and confirmed on the 9th November, 1891.
A. M. THOMSON, Acting Clerk of Councils.
W. M. GOODMAN,
Chairman.