LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL, No. 8.
TUESDAY, 17TH MAY, 1904.
PRESENT:
HIS EXCELLENCY THE OFFICER ADMINISTERING THE GOVERNMENT (FRANCIS HENRY MAY, C.M.G.).
The Honourable the Colonial Secretary, (ALEXANDER MACDONALD THOMSON).
the Attorney General, (Sir HENRY Spencer BERKELEY, Kt.).
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the Colonial Treasurer, (LEWIS AUDLEY MARSH JOHNSTON).
the Registrar General, (ARTHUR WINBOLT BREWIN).
the Director of Public Works, (PATRICK NICHOLAS HILL JONES).
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the Harbour Master, (Capt. LIONEL AUBREY WALTER BARNES-LAWRENCE, R.N.(ret'd)). Sir C. P. CHATER, Kt., C.M.G.
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Ho KAI, M.B., C.M., C.M.G.
WEI YUK.
GERSHOM STEWART.
HENRY EDWARD POLLOCK, K.C. WILLIAM JARDINE GRESSON.
ABSENT:
His Excellency the General Officer Commanding the Troops, (Major-General VILLIERS HATTON, C.B.).
The Council met pursuant to summons.
The Minutes of the last Meeting, held on the 26th April, 1904, were read and confirmed.
NEW MEMBER.—Mr. WILLIAM JARDINE GRESSON was duly sworn and took his seat as an Unofficial Member of the Council during the absence of Mr. CHARLes Wedderburn Dickson.
FINANCIAL MINUTES.-The Colonial Secretary, by command of His Excellency the Officer Administering the Government, laid on the table the following Financial Minutes, (Nos. 27 to 29), and moved that they be referred to the Finance Committee :-
C.O.D. No. 1602 of 1904.
C.S.O. No. 3110 of 1904.
C.S.O, No. 3549 of 1904.
F. H. MAY.
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The Officer Administering the Government recommends the Council to vote a sum of Two hundred Dollars ($200) in aid of the vote Botanical and Afforestation Department, under Other Charges, for preliminary experiments in Cotton-growing in the New Territories.
Government House, Hongkong, 26th April, 1904.
F. II. MAY.
The Officer Administering the Government recommends the Council to vote a sum of Thirty-four thousand seven hundred Dollars ($34,700) in aid of the vote Public Works, Extraordinary, for readjustment of Kowloon Marine Lots 44-46 and Kowloon Inland Lots 887-897, Taikoktsui.
Government House, Hongkong, 5th May, 1904.
F. H. MAY.
The Officer Administering the Government recommends the Council to vote a sum of One thousand five hundred Dollars ($1,500) in aid of the vote Botanical and Afforestation Depart- ment, Other Charges, for Tree-Planting.
Government House, Hongkong, 5th May, 1904.