LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL, No. 12.
MONDAY, 182 NOVEMBER, 1897.
PRESENT:
HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR
(Sir WILLIAM ROBINSON, G.C.M.G.).
His Excellency the General Officer Commanding (Major-General WILSONE BLACK, C.B.). The Honourable the Colonial Secretary and Registrar General, (JAMES HALDANE STEWART LOCKHART).
the Attorney General, (WILLIAM MEIGH GOODMAN).
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the Harbour Master, (ROBERT MURRAY RUMSEY, R.N.).
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the Captain Superintendent of Police, (FRANCIS HENRY MAY, C.M.G.).
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the Colonial Treasurer, (THOMAS SERCOMBE SMITH).
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the Director of Public Works, (Robert Daly ORMSBY). CATCHICK PAUL Chater, C.M.G.
Ho KAI, M.B., C.M.
THOMAS HENDERSON WHITEHEAD.
EMANUEL RAPHAEL BELILIOS, C.M.G.
JAMES JARDINE BELL-IRVING.
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The Council met pursuant to adjournment.
The Minutes of the last Meeting, held on the 25th October, 1897, were read and confirmed. PAPERS.―The Colonial Secretary, by command of His Excellency the Governor, laid on the table the following paper, viz. :—
General Instructions regarding Government Balances.
REPORT OF THE FINANCE COMMITTEE. The Colonial Secretary, by command of His Excellency. the Governor, laid on the table the report of the Finance Committee dated the 25th October, 1897, (No. 8), and moved its adoption,
The Colonial Treasurer seconded.
Question -put and agreed to
SANITARY_BYE-LAW.--The Colonial Secretary, by command of His Excellency the Governor, laid on the table a Bye-law made by the Sanitary Board, under sub-section 12 of section 13 of Ordinance No. 24 of 1887 and sub-section D) of section 1 of Ordinance No. 26 of 1890, and moved that it be approved.
The Attorney General seconded.
Question-put and agreed to.
SANITARY BYE-LAW-The Colonial Secretary informed the Council that he would move the approval of the Bye-law, inade by the Sanitary Board on the 17th June, 1897, under section 13 of Ordinance 15 of 1894 at the next meeting of Council.
QUESTION.-Mr. WHITEHEAD, pursuant to notice, asked the following question:-
If the Honourable the Colonial Secretary, after last meeting of the Finance Committee of this Council held on 13th ultimo, requested or directed the reporter of the "Daily Press" and for the official Hansard report of the proceedings of this Council, to suppress any portion of the discussion on the subject of the Military Contribution which took place at said meeting, and if it was at his suggestion that a question put by me at that meeting with reference to the Military Contribution, the Flonourable Member's reply thereto, and the Honourable the Colonial Treasurer's correction of an error into which the Honourable the Colonial Secretary had fallen in his reply, did not appear in the report of the meeting of the Finance Committee in any one of the three local newspapers and is not contained in the official Hansard report as sent round by the "Daily Press” to Honourable Members for revision.
The Colonial Secretary replied.
BILL ENTITLED AN ORDINANCE TO APPLY A SUM OF NOT EXCEEDING TWO MILLIONS THREE HUN- DRED AND FORTY-1HREE THOUSAND SEVEN HUNDRED AND THIRTY DOLLARS TO THE PUBLIC SERVICE OF THE YEAR 1898.-The Colonial Secretary moved the second reading of the Bill.
The Colonial Treasurer seconded.
Question-put and agreed to.
Bill read a second time.
The Colonial Secretary moved that the Bill be referred to the Finance Committee. The Colonial Treasurer seconded.
Question-put and agreed to.