No. 9.
REPORT OF PROCEEDINGS
OF THE
FINANCE COMMITTEE,
AT A MEETING HELD IN THE COUNCIL CHAMBER, HONGKONG,
On the 16th November, 1892.
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PRESENT:
The Honourable the Colonial Secretary, (GEORGE THOMAS MICHAEL O'BRIEN, C.M.G.), Chairman.
the Acting Attorney General, (ANDREW JOHN LEACH).
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the Registrar General, (JAMES HALDANE STEWART LOCKHART).
the Colonial Treasurer, (NORMAN GILBERT MITCHEL-INNES).
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the Director of Public Works, (FRANCIS ALFRED COOPER). the Harbour Master, (ROBERT MURRAY RUMSEY). CATCHICK PAUL CHATER.
Ho KAI, M.B., C.M.
THOMAS HENDERSON WHITEHEAD.
EMANUEL RAPHAEL BELILIOS.
JAMES JARDINE BELL-IRVING.
The Committee meet at the request of the Colonial Secretary.
Read the following Minutes under the hand of His Excellency the Governor :-
1452 of 1892.
C.S.Q.
1454 of 1892.
C.S.0.
1538 of 1999.
WILLIAM ROBINSON.
The Governor recommends the Council to vote a sum of Five hundred Dollars, ($500), as a building grant under the Grant-in-aid scheme being half the cost of new Grant-in-aid School built by the Basel Mission at Sham-shui-po which has taken the place of a Government School in the same place.
Government House, Hongkong, 25th June, 1892.
WILLIAM ROBINSON.
The Governor recommends the Council to vote a sum of Seven thousand One hundred and Fifty Dollars, ($7,150), to meet the extra expenditure during the current year on the Government Civil Hospital votes (under-estimated in the Estimates) for the following items:-
Bedding,
Médicines,
Medical comforts,
Light and Fuel,
Washing,
Incidental Expenditure,
Government House, Hongkong, 29th June, 1892.
WILLIAM ROBINSON.
$ 1,250.00
1.750.00
1,200.00
2,000.00
350.00
600.00
$7,150.00
The Governor recommends the Council to vote a sum of Five thousand Dollars, ($5,000), to supplement the vote in the Estimates for maintenance of roads and bridges out of Victoria, ($15,000), the expenditure under which has been unexpectedly heavy.
There will be a corresponding saving of expenditure under the vote "maintenance of roads and bridges in Kowloon."
Government House, Hongkong, 29th June, 1892.