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THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 22ND JANUARY, 1879.
VOTES AND PROCEEDINGS OF THE LEGISLATIVE
COUNCIL OF HONGKONG.
No. 5 or 1878.
MONDAY, 18TH NOVEMBER, 1878.
PRESENT:
His Excellency Governor J. Pore HENNESSY, C.M.G.
The Honourable the Acting Chief Justice (FRANCIS SNOWDEN).
The Honourable the Acting Colonial Secretary (CRARLES MAY).
The Honourable the Acting Colonial Treasurer (JOHN MACNEILE PRICE),
The Honourable PHINEAS RYRIE.
The Honourable HENRY Lowcock.
The Honourable WILLIAM KESWICK,
The Honourable THOMAS CHILD HAYLLAR, Q.C.
ABSENT:
The Honourable the Attorney General (GEORGE PHILLIPPO), from indisposition.
The Mintues of the last Meeting of Council are read and confirmed.
The Honourable JOHN MACNEILE PRICE, with the permission of His Excellency, lays upon the Table and details Estimates, which he had prepared, showing the cost of different schemes of Gaol
reconstruction.
The discussion regarding Gaol reconstruction is continued and is brought to a conclusion.
The Honourable HENRY LOWCOCK gives notice that at the next meeting he will move that the correspondence between the Government and the Supreme Court, the Magistrates and the Police Department, with reference to every case deported or recommended to the Executive for deportation since April, 1877, be laid on the Table.
His Excellency said that he would at once agree to have the correspondence alluded to laid on the Table.
His Excellency adjourns the Council sine die.
Read and confirmed, this 18th day of January, 1879.
H. E. WODEHOUSE,
Clerk of Councils.
J. POPE HENNESSY, Gonernor,
VOTES AND PROCEEDINGS OF THE LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL OF HONGKONG,
No. 8 or 1878.
SATURDAY, 21ST DECEMBER, 1878.
PRESENT;
His Excellency Governor J. POPE HENNESSY, C.M.G.
The Honourable the Acting Chief Justice (FRANCIS SNOWDEN).
The Honourable the Acting Colonial Secretary (CHARLES MAY),
The Honourable the Attorney General (GEORGE PHILLIPPO).
The Honourable the Acting Colonial Treasurer (JoHN MACNEILE PRICE).,
The Honourable PHINEAS RYRIE.
The Honourable HENRY LOWCOCK.
The Honourable WILLIAM KESWICK,
The Honourable THOMAS CHILD HAYLLAR, Q.C.
The reading of the Minutes of the last Meeting is postponed until the next Meeting. On the motion of His Excellency the Governor, the Standing Orders are suspended and His Excellency moves the following address on the death of Her Royal Highness the Princess ALICE :---
"We the Governor and Legislative Council of Hongkong venture from this distant portion of the Empire to offer to your Majesty our sincere condolence in the affliction your Majesty has sustained by the death of Her Royal Highness the Princess ALICE."
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The motion is seconded by the Honourable PHINEAS RYRIE, and is carried unanimously.
On the motion of His Excellency the Governor, the Appropriation Bill, 1879, is read a second time, committed, and, after one or two alterations and additions, is passed, bearing the Title of "An Ordinance enacted by the Governor of Hongkong, with the advice of the Legislative Council thereof, to appropriate a sum not exceeding Seven hundred and Seventy-nine thousand Dollars to the public service of the year 1879," being "Ordinance No. 5 of 1878."
THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 22ND JANUARY, 1879.
The following Bills are read a first time:-
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Bill to extend Ordinance No. 1 of 1875 to provide means for enforcing good order and discipline in the Police Force employed in the Royal Naval Yard to the other Establish- 'ments of the Royal Navy in this Colony.
Bill to amend Ordinance No. 2 of 1858 entitled "An Ordinance for Licensing and Regulating
the Sale of Prepared Opium."
The following votes are approved:
Gratuity of $840 to Dr. VAN DER HORCK for his services as Acting Superintendent of the Civil Hospital.
Supplementary vote of $1,500 for Repairs to Buildings.
The Honourable HENRY LOWCOCK, in accordance with notice previously given, moves that the correspondence between the Government and the Supreme Court, the Magistrates and the Police Department, with reference to every case deported or recommended to the Executive for deportation since April, 1877, be laid on the Table.
The Honourable W. KESWICK seconds the motion.
His Excellency said that he had already agreed to lay the correspondence asked for on the Table at the last Meeting, and that it was now in course of being prepared for the printer. He had, in order to make the correspondence complete, added documents of an earlier date than that fixed by the Honourable Member.
In reply to His Honour the Acting Chief Justice, His Excellency states that a Commission to inquire into the operation of Ordinance No. 4 of 1863 would be appointed as soon as circumstances permitted.
His Excellency adjourns the Council sine die.
Read and confirmed this 18th day of January, 1879.
H. E. WODEHOUSE,
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Clerk of Councils.
GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.
J. POPE HENNESSY, Governor.
Sir JOHN SMALE having returned to the Colony on the 14th instant, His Honour has resumed the daties of Chief Justice, and the following changes of officers have been made:-
Mr. SNOWDEN has resumed his duties as Puisne Judge.
Mr. RUSSELL has resumed his duties as Police Magistrate.
The Honourable J. M. PRICE having resigned the post of Acting Colonial Treasurer, Mr. M. S. TONNOCHY has been provisionally appointed by His Excellency the Governor to fill that office.
Consequent on Mr. PRICE resuming his functions as an unofficial member, Mr. HAYLLAR vacates the temporary seat he filled at the Legislative Council.
By Command,
Colonial Secretary's Office, Hongkong, 21st January, 1879.
No. 16.
GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.
C. MAY,
Acting Colonial Secretary.
The following Notice to Mariners, received from the French Consul, is published for general information.
By Command,
Colonial Secretary's Office, Hongkong, 21st January, 1879.
AVIS AUX NAVIGATEURS. BALISAGE DE LA RIVIERE CUA-CAM, (TONQUIN).
C. MAY,
Acting Colonial Secretary,
Le Gouvernement français fait savoir qu'il a été placé des bouées pour baliser la rovière Cua-Cam (Toaquin) depuis
la pointe Do-Son jusqu'à Haiphong.
Ces bouées sont au nombre de neuf: 4 rouges, I blanche et 4 noires.