LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL, No. 12.
WEDNESDAY, 12TH DECEMBER, 1894.
PRESENT:
HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR
(Sir WILLIAM ROBINSON, K.C.M.G.).
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The Honourable the Acting Colonial Secretary and Registrar General, (JAMES HALDANE
STEWART LOCKHART).
the Attorney General, (WILLIAM MEIGH GOODMAN).
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the Colonial Treasurer, (NORMAN GILBERT MITCHELL-INNES).
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the Director of Public Works, (FRANCIS ALFRED COOPER).
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the Harbour Master, (ROBERT MURRAY RUMSEY, R.N.). CATCHICK PAUL CHATER.
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Ho KAI, M.B., C.M.
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JAMES JOHNSTONE KESWICK.
EMANUEL RAPHAEL BELILIOS, C.M.G.
ALEXANDER MCCONACHIE.
The Council met pursuant to adjournment.
The Minutes of the last Meeting, held on the 6th December, were read and confirmed. FINANCIAL MINUTE. The Acting Colonial Secretary laid on the table the following Financial Minute, and moved that it be referred to the Finance Committee:-
C.S.O.
2843 of 1891.
WILLIAM ROBINSON.
The Governor recommends the Council to vote a sum of Nine hundred and Forty Dollars and Five Cents, ($940.05), on account of a deficiency in Stamps and Postal Notes as shewn in the accounts of the late Postal Agent at Ningpo, now deceased.
Government House, Hongkong, 8th December, 1894.
The Colonial Treasurer seconded.
Question-put and agreed to.
BILL ENTITLED
AN ORDINANCE TO APPLY A SUM NOT EXCEEDING TWO MILLIONS FOUR HUNDRED AND TWENTY THOUSAND, FIVE HUNDRED AND ONE DOLLARS TO THE PUBLIC SERVICE OF THE YEAR 1895."--The Acting Colonial Secretary moved the second reading of the Bill.
The Colonial Treasurer seconded,
Question--put and agreed to.
Bill read a second time.
The Acting Colonial Secretary moved that the Bill be referred to Finance Committee for con- sideration.
The Colonial Treasurer seconded.
Question-put and agreed to.
BILL ENTITLED (2
AN ORDINANCE TO SECURE, IN CERTAIN CASES, THE RIGHTS OF PROPERTY IN TELEGRAPHIC MESSAGES.”—Mr. MCCONACHIE moved the second reading of the Bill, and addressed the Council.
Mr. KESWICK seconded.
Question-put and agreed to.
Bill read a second time.
Council in Committee on the Bill.
ADJOURNMENT. — His Excellency the Governor adjourned the Council until Monday, the 17th December, 1894, at 3 P.M.
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Read and confirmed, this 17th day of December, 1894.
J. G. T. BUCKLE, Acting Clerk of Councils.
WILLIAM ROBINSON,
Governor.