LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL, No. 9.
THURSDAY, 23RD MAY, 1895.
PRESENT:
HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR
(Sir WILLIAM ROBINSON, K.C.M.G.).
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The Honourable the Colonial Secretary and Registrar General, (JAMES HALDANE STEWART
LOCKHART).
the Acting Attorney General, (ALFRED GASCOYNE WISE).
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the Acting Colonial Treasurer, (ALEXANDER MACDONALD THOMSON).
the Director of Public Works, (FRANCIS ALFRED COOPER),
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the Harbour Master, (ROBERT MURRAY RUMSEY, R.N.). CATCHICK PAUL CHATER.
HO KAI, M.B., C.M.
EMANUEL RAPHAEL BELILIOS, C.M.G.
ALEXANDER MCCONACHIE.
JAMES JARDINE BELL-IRVING.
The Council met pursuant to summons, the Meeting adjourned till the 1st May being further adjourned by command of His Excellency the Governor.
The Minutes of the last Meeting, held on the 17th April, were read and confirmed.
NEW MEMBER. --Mr. BELL-IRVING took the Oath of Allegiance on his provisional appointment to a seat in the Council,
PAPERS.-The Colonial Secretary, by command of His Excellency the Governor, laid on the table the following papers :-
(1) Report of the Pó Léung Kuk Society for the nine months ending 31st December, 1894. (2) Statement of Disbursements for Forestry Works in the Years 1896 and 1897.
(3) Report of the Director of Public Works for 1894.
(4) Reports on the Hongkong Volunteer Corps.
(5) Returns of Superior and Subordinate Courts for 1894.
(6) Supplementary Report of the Retrenchment Committee on the Public Works Depart-
ment.
(7) Report of the Medical Committee.
FINANCIAL MINUTES.-The Colonial Secretary, by command of His Excellency the Governor, laid on the table the following Financial Minutes and moved that they be referred to the Finance Committee:-
FINANCIAL MINUTE, No. 12.
C.5.0.
1223 of 1895.
WILLIAM ROBINSON.
The Governor recommends the Council to re-vote the sum of Three thousand Eight hundred and Twenty-four Dollars and Seventeen Cents, ($3,824.17), for the extension of Mac Donnell and Austin Roads at Kowloon.
(The above is the unexpended balance of the sum voted for the above work for 1894.) Government House, Hongkong, 4th May, 1895.
FINANCIAL MINUTE, No. 13.
€.5.0.
1440 of 1895.
WILLIAM ROBINSON.
The Governor recommends the Council to vote a sum of Twenty thousand Dollars, ($20,000), for expenses incurred in connection with the Resumption of Taipingshan.
Government House, Hongkong, 22nd May, 1895.
The Acting Colonial Treasurer seconded.
Question-put and agreed to.