22
Subject of Despatch.
7th 1. Apt. 8th Replying to His Lordship's Despatch No. 44 of the 13th June, relative to the practical effect of certain provisions in the Rate of Court of 2nd March, 1848, for employment and remuneration of Interpreters and Translators None.
15th Reporting concurrence in a severe Typhoon on the 31st ulto and 1st Inst in which, besides much damage caused to property generally, the Government armed Police boat was lost, and 22 persons perished.
Transmitting copy of and reporting on Ordinance No. 1 of 1848, entitled "An Ordinance to regulate the manufacture and storage of Gunpowder within the Colony of Hongkong".
Transmitting copy of and reporting on Ordinance No. 2 of 1848, entitled "An Ordinance to amend the Ordinance No. 13 of 1845, entitled 'An Ordinance to establish a licensed Theatre in the Colony of Hongkong and for the better regulation of places resorting thereto'"
One.
One.
No. of Despatch
23
Subject of Despatch.
No. of Encl.
5. Sept. 7th Reporting grant of £100 for a passage to England to the widow and child of the late Inspector Sanitary, who was drowned at the wreck of the Police Boat in the Typhoon of the past Instant, and recommending that a pension of £50 per annum be granted her.
6. 27th Transmitting further correspondence with Commodore Plumridge, on the subject of additional protection to the Naval Stores at West Point.
One.
Rejecting sale of the salt weighing and stone quarrying licenses for the year 1848-49.
28th Acknowledging receipt of Despatches to No. 41 of the 10th July, 1848.
None.
14. Transmitting returns of Receipts and Payments of the Colony, for the Quarter ended 30th September 1848.
16th Transmitting Quarterly Returns for the Quarter ending 30th September 1848.
One.
29.
78.
79.
One.