14
C.S.0,
485 of 1802.
WILLIAM ROBINSON.
The Governor recommends the Council to vote a sum of Four hundred and Eighty Dollars, ($480), to defray the rent of the Mercantile Marine Office at the Sailors' Home for Twelve months from January 1st to December 31st, 1892.
Government House, Hongkong, 18th March, 1892.
The Colonial Treasurer seconded.
Question-put and agreed to.
VOTES PASSED BY THE FINANCE COMMITTEE.-The Colonial Secretary by command of His Excellency the Governor laid on the table the Finance Committee Report dated the 14th March, (No. 4), and moved that the following Votes referred to therein be passed, viz. :
C.5.0.
6 of 1892.
C.S.O.
455 and 479 of 1892.
7 of 1882.
A sum of One hundred and Eighty Dollars, for the salary of a Watchman to act also as Interpreter to the Colonial Veterinary Surgeon at $20 per month, from 1st April next,
A sum of Two hundred and Fifty Dollars, for expenses in connection with
Quarantine Commission,
Co. Desp. A sum of One hundred and Ninety-two Dollars, to cover an increase of $96 per annum from the 1st of January, 1891, to the Second Chinese Assistant in the Victoria College,......
The Colonial Treasurer seconded. Question-put and agreed to.
.$ 180.00
$
250.00
.$ 192.00
PAPER LAID ON THE TABLE.-The Colonial Secretary, by command of His Excellency the Governor, laid on the table the Report of the Committee of the Legislative Council appointed to consider the advisability of raising a public loan.
The Honourable T. H. WHITEHEAD gave notice that at the next Meeting of Council he would ask the following question :-
Referring to Dr. Eitel's report on the Government Central School for Girls and to the Statement therein, that the Government were about to appropriate a site for a new School, will the Government lay upon the table any papers or correspondence on the subject, and state if the Government intend to take the opinion of this Council on the subject before making any appropriation either in money or land in connection therewith.
The Honourable T. H. WHITEHEAD asked the following question :-
Does the Government intend to give effect to the opinions expressed in the Report (dated Hongkong, 20th February, 1892,) of the Commission appointed to consider Quarantine, and Quarantine Regulations, by amending that part of the Merchant Shipping Ordinance of 1891, which deals with Quarantine, and if so when does it propose to do so.
The Colonial Secretary replied.
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BILL ENTITLED AN ORDINANCE TO GIVE EFFECT TO THE CHANGE IN NAME AND STYLE OF THE SURVEYOR GENERAL AND SURVEYOR GENERAL'S DEPARTMENT."-The Attorney General moved the second reading of the Bill.
The Colonial Secretary seconded.
Question--put and agreed to.
Bill read a second time.
Council in Committee on the Bill.
Council resumed and Bill reported without amendment.
The Attorney General moved the third reading of the Bill.
The Colonial Secretary seconded.
Question-put and agreed to.
Bill read a third time.
Question put-that this Bill do pass.
Bill passed.