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VOTES AND PROCEEDINGS OF THE LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL OF HONGKONG.
No. 10 of 1871.
FRIDAY, 22ND SEPTEMBER, 1871.
PRESENT:
His Excellency Major-General WHITFEILD, Lieutenant-Governor. The Honorable the Colonial Secretary (JOHN GARDINER AUSTIN.) The Honorable the Acting Attorney General (HENRY JOHN BALL.)
The Honorable the Acting Colonial Treasurer (CECIL CLEMENTI SMITH.) The Honorable PHINEAS RYRIE.
The Honorable WILLIAM KESWICK.
The Honorable RICHARD ROWETT.
ABSENT:
The Honorable the Chief Justice (JOHN SMALE), absent on leave.
The Council meets this day at 2.30 P.M., pursuant to adjournment.
$ C. 740.00
12,910.00
5,012.00
14,087.00
100.00
21,670.00
The Minutes of the Council held on the 11th September, are read and confirmed.
The Appropriation Bill for 1872, is read a second time, and the Council goes into Committee upon
the Estimates for the said year.
The following Votes are agreed to:-
CIVIL DEPARTMENTS:-
Governor,
Colonial Secretary, Colonial Treasurer,
Auditor General, Clerk of Councils,
Surveyor General,
Postmaster General,
35,210.00
On the Vote for the Registrar General's Department being submitted, a Question is put by the Honorable PHINEAS RYRIE, calling for information relative to the duties of the Registrar General, and asking-"Is it one of the duties of the Department to transmit to Custom-house "Officials in Canton letters which have been declared in this Council to be private and "confidential?"
The Honorable the Acting Treasurer, in his capacity of Registrar General, with some vehemence replies to the Honorable Member, and assures His Excellency and Members of Council, that no grounds exist for imputing either to himself or to any Officer in his Depart- ment the charge implied by the Honorable Member.
Certain remarks on the subject having then been made by other Honorable Members, consideration of the Estimates in Committee is resumed.
The following Votes are agreed to:-
Registrar General,
Harbor Master,
10,878.00
FIRE BRIGADE
CHARITABLE ALLOWANCES,
TRANSPORT,
JUDICIAL DEPARTMENTS,..
Collector of Stamp Revenue,
ECCLESIASTICAL DEPARTMENT, -
REGISTRAR OF COMPANIES' DEPARTMENT,
EDUCATIONAL
do.,
do..
MEDICAL
POLICE MAGISTRATES'
do.,
do.
POLICE
do.,
GAOL
do.,
27,547.60
4,078.00
10,624.00
192.00
1,134.00
15,774.00
25,196.00
7,878.00
188,501.10
44,105.00
7,349.00
1,756.00
4,500.00
WORKS AND BUILDINGS, ROADS, STREETS AND BRIDGES, MISCELLANEOUS SERVICES, MILITARY CONTRIBUTION,
87,000.00
38,000.00
30,000.00
04,000.00
Total,
$687,290.70
EC.
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