No. 3.
REPORT OF PROCEEDINGS
OF THE
FINANCE COMMITTEE,
AT A MEETING HELD IN THE COUNCIL CHAMBER, HONGKONG,
On the 23rd May, 1907.
PRESENT:
His Excellency the General Officer Commanding the Troops, (Major-General ROBERT GEORGE
BROADWOOD, C.B.).
The Honourable the Colonial Secretary, (ALEXANDER MACDONALD THOMSON), Chairman.
the Attorney General, (HENRY HESSY JOHNSTON GOMPERTZ).
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the Colonial Treasurer, (CHARLES MCILVAINE MESSER).
the Director of Public Works, (WILLIAM CHATHAM).
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the Registrar General, (ARTHUR WINBOLT BREWIN).
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the Captain Superintendent of Police, (FRANCIS JOSEPH BADELEY).
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Dr. Ho KAI, M.B., C.M., C.M.G.
Mr. WEI YUK.
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Mr. HENRY EDWARD POLLOCK, K.C.
Mr. EDBERT ANSGAR HEWETT.
Mr. EDWARD Osborne.
Mr. HENRY KESWICK,
I, ALEXANDER MACDONALD THOMSON, Chairman of the Finance Committee, do hereby certify that the Committee on the 23rd day of May, 1907, considered clause by clause a Bill entitled an Ordinance to authorize the appropriation of a Supplementary Sum of Four hundred and seventy-seven thousand eight hundred and forty-nine Dollars and fifty-three Cents, to defray the Charges for the Year 1906, and unanimously recommended that the Bill in question be dealt with by the Council in the same manner as a Bill reported on by a Committee of the whole Council.
The following Resolution was also considered together with the Statement showing the Estimated Expenditure on the Kowloon-Canton Railway up to December, 1907, and unani- mously agreed to :-
"It is hereby resolved that a Sum of Two million four hundred and thirty-eight thousand Dollars ($2,438,000) be advanced out of Funds in the Custody of the Government for the purposes of construction of the Kowloon-Canton Railway (British Section) during the year 1907.
Laid before the Legislative Council and adopted on the 6th June, 1907.
A. G. M. FLETCHER,
Clerk of Councils.
A. M. THOMSON,
Chairman.