LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL, No. 5.
MONDAY, 16TH APRIL, 1894.
PRESENT:
HIS EXCELLENCY THE OFFICER ADMINISTERING THE GOVERNMENT (George ThomaS MICHAEL OBRIEN, C.M.G.).
The Honourable the Attorney General, (WILLIAM MEIGH GOODMAN).
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the Registrar General, (JAMES HALDANE STEWART Lockhart). the Colonial Treasurer, (NORMAN GILBERT MITCHELL-INNES).
the Harbour Master, (ROBERT MURRAY RUMSEY, R.N.).
EDWARD Bowdler.
CATCHICK PAUL CHATER.
JAMES JOHNSTONE KESWICK.
Ho KAI, M.B., C.M.
THOMAS HENDERSON WHITEHEAD.
EMANUEL RAPHAEL BELILIOS, C.M.G.
The Council met pursuant to adjournment.
The Minutes of the last Meeting, held on the 12th instant, were read and confirmed.
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PAPER. His Excellency the Officer Administering the Government laid on the table the follow- ing paper :-
Statement showing Disbursements for Forestry Works in the years 1895 and 1896, for which contracts have been
already made, and those for which contracts now require to be made:-
To be disbursed in 1894.
To be disbursed in 1895.
To be disbursed in 1896.
Estimated total cost.
APPROVED BY LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL,
C.S.O. No. 987
1803
1. Rearing Trees to be planted in 1895,
$ C.
1,000.00
2. Planting Trees being reared under No. 1...........
1,600.00
Contracts to be now made which require approval :——
3. Rearing Trees to be planted in 1896,
1,000.00
4. Planting Trees to be reared under No. 3,........................
1,400.00
5,000.00
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1,000.00
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1,600.00
C.
1,000.00
1,400.00
2,600.00
2,400.00
MOTION.-The Registrar General moved the following resolution :--
That" the Council having considered the above statement by the Superintendent of the Botanical and Afforestation Department resolves that it is expedient to incur the liability proposed to be incurred in 1896."
The Attorney General seconded.
Question-put and agreed to.
QUESTIONS.--Mr. WHITEHEAD, pursuant to notice, asked the following questions:-
JUDICATURE ACT OF 1873.
1. With reference to the Statement of the Honourable the learned Attorney General at the Meeting of the Legislative Council on 23rd November, 1891, to the effect that the Government had then under consideration the introduction into this Colony of Sub-section 6, Section 25 of the Judicature Act of 1873, Will the Government inform the Council whether it is proposed to amend the law by introducing the provisions in the said Sub-section 6, and if so, when.
OBSERVATORY.
2. Have the Government obtained from the Members of the late Observatory Commission or from any others interested in the subject, any suggestions for the improvement of the system of compiling and issuing meteorological reports, and furnishing weather forecasts, and if not, what steps do they propose to take, before the typhoon season is on us, to render the Observatory in its meteorological branch more useful than it has been in the past.
EXPENDITURE.
3. Has a sum of $537 been paid out of the Treasury to W. Logan, Detective in the employ of the Hongkong, Canton and Macao Steam-boat Company, Limited; and if so, on what authority; and why has no application been made in the ordinary course to this Council for its sanction and approval of that payment.
His Excellency the Officer Administering the Government replied.