No. 16.
REPORT OF PROCEEDINGS
OF THE
FINANCE COMMITTEE,
AT A MEETING HELD IN THE COUNCIL CHAMBER, HONGKONG,
On the 21st October, 1909.
PRESENT:
His Excellency the General Officer Commanding the Troops, (Major-General ROBERT
GEORGE BROADWOOD, C.B.).
The Honourable the Colonial Secretary, (FRANCIS HENRY MAY, C.M.G.), Chairman.
the Attorney General, (WILLIAM REES DAVIES, K.C.).
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the Colonial Treasurer, (CHARLES MOILVAINE MESSER).
the Director of Public Works, (PATRICK NICHOLAS HILL JONES). the Registrar General, (ARTHUR WINBOLT BREWIN).
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the Captain Superintendent of Police, (FRANCIS JOSEPH BADELEY). Dr. Ho KA1, M.B., C.M.G.
Mr. WE YUK, C.M.G.
Mr. EDBERT ANSGAR HEWETT.
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Mr. WILLIAM JARDINE GRESSON.
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Mr. EDWARD Ösbokne.
Mr. MURRAY STEWART,
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The Committee met pursuant to summons.
Read the following Minutes under the hand of His Excellency the Governor :--
No. 42.-Botanical and Forestry Department, Typewriter, No. 43-Audit Department, Temporary European Clerk,... No. 44. Treasury, Allowance to one additional Police Sergeant
as Supervisor of Revenue Collection, New Territories,
-$ 165.
250.
100.
5,700.
No. 45.-Police Department, Other Charges, No. 46.-Prison Department, Subsistence of Prisoners,............ 1,100.
The Committee unanimously agreed to recommend that the above votes be passed.
APPROPRIATION BILL.-The Committee then considered clause by clause the Bill entitled An Ordinance. to apply a sum not exceeding Five million six hundred and twenty- five thousand six hundred and eighty-three Dollars to the Public Service of the year 1910: and advised that the Bill be reported without amendment,
The Committee then adjourned sine die.
Laid before the Legislative Council and adopted on the 28th October, 1909.
C. CLEMENTI,
Clerk of Councils.
F. H. MAY,
Chairman.