[November, 30, 1907.
FINANCIAL..
The COLONIAL BEORETARY, by Command of His Excellency the Governor, kid on the table. Report of the Finance Committee, No.-10, and moved its adoption.
The COLONIAL TREASURER seconded, and the motion was agreed to.
OLEANLINESS AND VENTILATION BYELAW8,
The COLONIAL SECRETARY-I notice Sir, with regret, that the wrong bye-law has been printed and circulated, and would ask that this Item stand over till next meeting.
Members agreed.
CHINAOVERLAND TRADE REPORT.
FINANCE COMMITTEE.
A meeting of the Finance Committee was then held-the COLONIAL SECRETARY presid. ing. The following votes were passed ;
SANITARY.
The Governor recommended the Council to vote a sum of Three hundred Dollars ($300) in aid of the vote, Sanitary Department, Sanitary Staff, ther Charges, Cemeteries Incidental Expenses.
PUBLIC WORKS.
The Governor recommended the Council to vote a sum of one hundred and four thousand and fifty dollars ($104,050) in aid of the vote, Extraordinary, for the following items :— Public Works, Recurrent, and Public Works
PUBLIC WORKS, RECURRENT, Buildings.
1 Maintenance of Buildings $8,000
Communications.
4 Maintenance of Roads and
Bridges in City
5 Maintenanos of Roads and
Bridges outside City
1,000
2,500 8 Maintenance of Telegraphs 4,500 10 Maintenance of
Drainage.
Sowers, Nullahs, &c.
13 Gas Lighting, Kowloon
Lighting.
Miscellaneous.
16 Maintenance of Public
Cemetery
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4,500
850
400 19 Miscellaneous Services 1,000 20 Typhoon and Rainstorm
Damages
66,800
Kok
...
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Water Works,
$50
***
400
89,700
PUBLIC WORKS, EXTRAORDINARY.
THE COMPANIES ORDINANCE, The ATTORNEY-General—Sir, With refer- ence to the Bill to amend the Law relating to Companies, it will be within the recollection of the Council that the Committee. stage was adjourned to enable the Government to consider a point raised by the hon. gentleman opposite in regard to the Bill. Now, Sir, I have had opportunity to consider the point rained by the hon. gentleman carefully, and the conclusion at which I have arrived is that the objections which he raised are remote. The issue of a licence for an extra colonial mgister is discretionary in the Governor-in-Connoil, and is an annual one. Whilst transfer fees are payable by shareholders, the company under the Ordinance has to pay the licence fee for the benefit of shareholders, and it is to be presumed. the company would not go to the expense unless it had a sufficient number of shareholders interested to make it practicable, for the com. pany to ask for a licence. The hon. gentle- man, it seems, is under a misapprehension, in supposing that the power of obtaining an extra eolonial register is in the individual share 23 Maintenance of Shaukiwan holders. This right is inherent in the company 25 Maintenance of Lai Chi itself; the licence fee is an annual one, and should be a source of revenue.
I may, how. ever, Sir, point out that in order to make the position clear, and in order to show that the object of the Bill is to give to companies whose main business is carried on elsewhere the right of having a local register, I propose to ask the committee to allow me to insert a proviso to the first sub-section of section, 4, to ...the affect that such company must satisfy the Governor-in-Council that the principal part of its business is carried on. at or near the place where it desires to keep the register. That will meet the hon. gentleman. As I bave said, the discretion is in the Governor-in-Council, that discretion will be exercised with caution, and if that proviso is inserted a licence will be granted subject to that condition. I trust, Sir, that that amendment will make our position even olearer, and will be satisfactory to the hon. gentleman. There are, I
may say, certain other amendments more or less of a formal character which I will ask the committee to insert in the Bill. I have had an opportunity of conferring with the hon. and learned gentleman on my left, and he has certain proposals to make which clear up certain ambiguities which appear on the face of the Bill. There are also one or two minor amend- manta which I propose to ask the committee to insert. I move, Sir, that the Council resolve itself into commities.
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Council went into Committee and considered the Bill clause by olanse, · Certain amendmenta! were made, and the title of the Bill was altered to read “An Ordinance to authorise Companies registered under the Companies Ordinance, 1885, to keep local registers of their members outside the Colony."
On Council resuming the ATTORNEY- GENREAL reported that the Bill had passed through committee, and moved that it be read a third time.
Hon. Mr. KESWICK seconded, and the motion was agreed to.
The Bill was then read a third time, passed, and became law.
THE NOTARINS PUBLIC ORDINANCE The - ATTORNEY-GENERAL—Sir, With re- ference to the Bill relating to Notaries Public that has engaged the attention of the Council, I am instructed to state that the Bill was in- troduced as an uncontroversial one, and in view of the objections that have been raised to its enactment it is not proposed to proceed with it at present.
HI #ZOHIYA HOT—Council stands adjourned
his day fortnight.
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14 Training Nullahs
104
Drainage.
4,000 Miscellaneous. 22 Miscellaneous Works,....... 7,000
Water Works. 29 Miscellaneous Water Works 550
Insanitary Property
Resumption
Total,
*
2,800
14,350
$104,050 Hon. Mr. POLLOCK.-I would like some, information about the insanitary property resumption, $2800. '
The DIRECTOR OF PUBLIC WORKS.-That,
completed. Sir, is to enable the Li Lung Lane to be
Hon. Mr. POLLOCK.—I would also like to know where the nullahs are that have been trained?
The DIRECTOR OF PUBLIC WORKS-One, Sir, is at Happy Valley, an extension of the nullah beyond the enclosure of the grandstand. Two others are in Wanchai, and the rest are in the section lying east of Albany nullah,
954
The Governor recommends the Council to vote a sum of Two hundred and ninety Dollars ($290) in aid of the vote, Police and Prison Departments, B.- Fire Brigade, Other Charger, Typhoon Damages.
The Governor recommended the Council to vote a sum of Twenty-fire Dollars ($25) in sid of the vote, Police and Prison Departments, C.-Prison, Other Charges. Fees, and Allowances for inflicting Corporal Executioner's
l'unishment.
COMMUNICATIONS AND NEW
ROADS.
The Governor recommended tue Connell to vote a sum of Four thousand one hundred and eighty-four Dollars ($4,184) in aid of the vote, Public Works, Extraordinary, Communications, New Roads in New Territories
BOTANICAL AND FORESTRY DEPARTMENT,
The Governor recommended the Council to vote a sum of One thousand Dollars ($1,000) in aid of the vote, Botanical and Forestry De- partment, Other Charges, Forestry in New Territories.
HARBOUR MASTER'S DEPÄRT ENT.
The Governor recommended the Council to vote a sum of Two hundred and eighty Dollars ($280) in aid of the vote, Harb ur Master's De. partment 4.-Harbour Office, ther Charges, Electric Fans and Light.
CONVEYANCE AND TRANSPORT.
The Governor recommended the Council to vote
sum of One thousand one hundred Dollars ($1,10) in aid of the vote, Police and Prison Departments, A.-Police, Other
Charges, for the following items :--
Conveyance of Police, Prisoners and
Transport
Incidental Expenses
Total
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...8850
250
$1100,
COLONIAL SECRETARY'S DEPARTMENT. The Governor recommended the Council to -vote a sum of Five hundred Dollars ($500) in aid of the vote, Colonial Secretary's Department and Legislature, Other Charges, Incidental Expenses.
SERVICES OF THE SANITARY
COMMISSIONERS.
The following letter from the Secretary of State was laid before the Legislative Council yesterday, by command of His Excellency the Governor.
Downing Street, 18th October, 1907. 8ir,-In the absence of your predecessor, the Officer Administering the Government sub- mitted to me the Report of the Commission appointed to consider the administration of the Sanitary Regulations of Hongkong.
sioners' Report have already formed the subject Certain questions arising out of the Commis.
of references to me, and I have no doubt that other matters discussed by them are now on- The CHAIRMAN-The particular causes of gaging your attention. this excess. I think, are the draining of the take this opportunity of requesting that you In the meantime I swamp near the Military Hospital; the sub-will express to the members of the Commission Bowen Road; inverted nullahs and various manner in which they conducted what was stitution of stone paving for concrete on my appreciation of the careful and thorough miscellaneous works,
evidently a difficult and labɔrioas investigation. -I have, &o.,
ELGIN.
MEDICAL DEPARTMENT.
The Governor recommended the Council to vote a sum of Three hundred Dollars (330) in | Governor, Sir F. D. LUGARD, K.O.M.G, Q.3., aid of the vote, Medical Departments, B.-
D.8.0., &c., &o. Hospital Halk Hospitals and Asylums, Infectious Hospitals,
Provisions, &o.
Hygeia, Other Charges,
The Governor recommended the Council to vote a sum of One thousand four hundred and eighty-two Dollars ($1,482) in aid of the vote, Medical Department, B.-Hospitals and Aay. lums, Infectious Hospitals, Hospital Hulk "Hygeia." Other Charges, Provisions, ko.
They are having busy times at the Post Office these days, what with the Christmas mail and the compiling of statistics which, will be used in determining the turnover of each Post Office in the Postal Union for the next six years. The exonse of the Christmas mail this year as compared with that of last year is 69 bags of letters and 14 boxes of parcels. The total taken by three maila in 1906 was 372 bags of letters and 115 boxes of parcels, whereas the three steamers taking mails due in England before Christmas this year carried 441 The Governor recommended the Council to bags of letters and 129 boxes of parenia. Of vote a sum of Three hundred and forty-three late the Post Office staff have been_exceedingly Dollars ($843) in aid of the vote, Polios and | hard at work, even the Postmaster-General, Mr. Prison Departmentz, d.—Polies, Other Charges, | C. MeL.Moser, being at the office shortly, after
seven o’elook in the morning,
The Governor recommended the Council to rote a sum of Four hundred and fifty-six Dollars ($456) in aid of the vote, Medical Departments, 4.-Staff, Other Charges, Health Officer of Port, Repairs to Launch.
POLICE AND PRISON VÕTIL.
Street Servies,