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C.5.0.
901 of 1900.
C.S.O.
1232 of 1900.
HENRY A. BLAKE.
The Governor recommends the Council to vote a sum of One thousand and Thirty-five Dollars ($1,035) for additional fittings to two Police Launches.
Government House, Hongkong, 4th August, 1900.
HENRY A. BLAKE.
The Governor recommends the Council to vote a sum of Eighty-one Dollars ($81) to defray the wages for 4 months of an oiler for the new steam tender.
Government House, Hongkong, 7th August, 1900.
The Colonial Treasurer seconded.
Question-put and agreed to.
REPORT OF THE PUBLIC WORKS COMMITTEE.-The Director of Public Works laid on the table the report of the Public Works Committee dated the 23rd July, 1900, (No. 3), and moved its adoption.
The Acting Colonial Secretary seconded.
Question-put and agreed to.
NATURALIZATION OF WEI LUN SHEK BILL.-The Attorney General moved the first reading of a Bill entitled An Ordinance for the Naturalization of WEI LUN SHEK, alias WEI CHU, alias WEI SHIU WING, alias WEI YAU YING.
The Acting Colonial Secretary seconded.
Question--put and agreed to.
Bill read a first time.
The Attorney General moved the suspension of the Standing Rule and Orders. The Acting Colonial Secretary seconded.
Question--put and agreed to.
The Attorney General moved the second reading of the Bill.
The Acting Colonial Secretary seconded.
Question-put and agreed to.
Bill read a second time.
Council in Cominittee on the Bill,
Council resumed and Bill reported without amendment.
The Attorney General moved the third reading of the Bill.
The Acting Colonial Secretary seconded.
Question-put and agreed to.
Bill read a third time.
Question put-that this Bill do pass.
Bill passed.
KOWLOON GODOWNS TRAMWAYS ORDINANCE AMENDMENT BILL.-The Attorney General noved the second reading of the Bill entitled An Ordinance to further amend the Kowloon Godowns Tramways Ordinance, 1897.
The Director of Public Works seconded.
Question-put and agreed to.
Bill read a second time.
Council in Committee on the Bill.
Council resumed and Bill reported without amendment.
The Attorney General moved the third reading of the Bill.
The Director of Public Works seconded.
Question--put and agreed to.
Bill read a third time.
Question put-that this Bill do pass.
Bill passed.
ADJOURNMENT.-The Council then adjourned sine die.
Read and confirmed, this 1st day of October, 1900.
R. F. JOHNSTON, Acting Clerk of Councils,
HENRY A. BLAKE,
Governor.