Other Charges.
Paints, Brushes, &c., for Painting Numbers on Junks, .
E-STEAM-LAUNCHES.
Steam-Launch Daisy.
Personal Emoluments.
* Allowances for Painting Numbers on Junks to:-
550
Engineer, at $24,
2 Seamen, at $24 each,
Total,
$ 12
24
36
.$ 2,221
No. 4676 of
1908.
*For 6 months from 1st July to 31st December, 1908.
Government House, Hongkong, 23rd June, 1908,
F. D. LUGARD.
The Governor recommends the Council to vote a sum of Thirty thousand Dollars ($30,000) in aid of the vote, Charitable Services, Other Charitable Allowances.
Government House, Hongkong, 30th June, 1908.
The Colonial Treasurer seconded.
Question-put and agreed to.
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 June, 1908, and moved its adoption.
The Colonial Treasurer seconded.
Question-put and agreed to.
FLOODS IN SOUTH CHINA.-His Excellency the Governor addressed the Council and moved the following Resolution :-
"That the Legislative Council of Hongkong desires on behalf of the community, to convey to the Governor-General of the two Kuang provinces, their deep sympathy in the appalling calamity which has overtaken a large part of the population of Kuang Tung and Kuany Si.
It is further resolved that a sum of Thirty thousand Dollars be disbursed from the General Revenue of the Colony is a donation from the Colony of Hongkong to the Fund for the relief of the sufferers from the recent floods in the Kuang Tung und Kuang Si Provinces."
Dr. Ho KAI addressed the Council and seconded.
The motion was carried unanimously.
WIDOWS' AND ORPHANS' PENSION BILL.-The Colonial Secretary addressed the Council and moved the First reading of a Bill entitled An Ordinance to provide for the Transfer to the Government of Hongkong of the Widows' and Orphans' Pension Fund and of the Management and Control of the Pensions of Widows and Orphans and to consolidate the laws in relation thereto.
The Attorney General seconded.
Question-put and agreed to.
Bill read a first time.
PREPARED OPIUM AMENDMENT BILL-The Attorney General moved that the Council resolve itself into a Committee of the whole Council to consider the Bill entitled An Ordin- ance to prohibit the Exportation of Prepared Opium to China and to French Indo-China.
The Colonial Secretary seconded.
Question-put and agreed to. Council in Committee on the Bill.