but of course

no clap

distentions

can be tolerated in

supported by public money.

Wait

a1

Wilding events fall

proposed.

RM 3/11

V

Rav4 UN 3

I cannot wade through the pages

of talking printed in uncustomary

to

this Despicable

me know

about

shortly

Ford Kimberley

Plume Let

it is all

what it is

K Nov5

The City Hall erected on

public land

Heretofore

and partly at the public expense, was

The Library intended for public and Museum, which forms part

has

it, and which has been supported

by

an annual grant of $1200 from the public treasury, we intended the open to all well-behaved and decent people. But the City Hall Committee have placed restrictions on the admission of Chinese by

excluding them on


477

Sundays

and at certain hours on

other days. This having been

complained of, Sir M. Hicks Beach suggested that the

experiment

of removing these restrictions should be tried

for six months. But the Committee proving obstinate, the Governor omitted the usual vote

$1200

from the estimates for 1881. Hence this discussion. The Governor reports however that he has hopes of a satisfactory arrangement which will enable him to put back the vote. There was also a dispute to whom the money

should be paid, whether to the Committee or to the Treasurer, which the Governor has settled (with apparent reason) in favour of the latter

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