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LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL No. 14.
BILLS COMMITTED.-On the motion of the Attorney General, seconded by the Acting Colonial Secretary, the Council went into Committee on the following Bills :-
1. A Bill to empower the Colonial Treasurer to pay otherwise than to Executors or Administrators
small Sums due on account of Pay or Allowances to Persons deceased.
Bill reported with a verbal amendment, and the addition of a clause.
2. A Bill for the better Apportionment of Rents and other periodical Payments.
Bill reported with some verbal amendments.
3. A Bill to amend the Law relating to Larceny and Embezzlement.
Bill reported with a verbal amendment.
4. A Bill to amend the Lam relating to the Custody of Infants.
Bill reported without amendment.
5. A Bill to amend the Law relating to Sales of Reversions. Bill reported without amendment.
The Attorney General gave notice that at the next meeting of Council he would move the third reading of these Bills.
POSTPONEMENT OF THE OTHER ORDERS OF THE DAY.-The Attorney General moved the post- ponement of the other Orders of the Day.
Question-put and passed.
The Council then adjourned until Wednesday, the 27th instant, at 4 P.M.
WEDNESDAY, 27TH JANUARY, 1886.
PRESENT:
HIS EXCELLENCY WILLIAM HENRY MARSH, C.M.G.,
Administering the Government in the absence of His Excellency SIR GEORGE FERGUSON BOWEN, G.C.M.G.
His Honour the Chief Justice, (SIR GEORGE PHILLIPPO, Knt.)
The Honourable the Acting Colonial Secretary, (FREDERICK STEWART, LL.D.)
the Attorney General. (EDWARD LOUGHLIN O'MALLEY.)
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the Colonial Treasurer, (ALFRED LISTER.)
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the Surveyor General, (JOHN MACNEILE PRICE.)
PHINEAS RYRIE.
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WILLIAM KESWICK.
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THOMAS JACKSON.
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FREDERICK DAVID SASSOON. WONG SHING.
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The Council met pursuant to adjournment.
The Minutes of the last Meeting, held on the 20th instant, were read and confirmed. VOTE OF MONEY REFERRED TO THE FINANCE COMMITTEE.-Read the following Minute by His Excellency the Officer Administering the Government:-
W. H. MARSH, Administering the Government.
C.S.0.
2985 of 1895.
Read and confirmed, this 27th day of January, 1886.
ARATHOON SETHI,
Clerk of Councils.
W. H. MARSH.
The Officer Administering the Government recommends the Council to re-vote the sum of $5,000 which was not expended last year on the re-construction of Pedder's Wharf.
The Surveyor General bas recommended that the pier should be constructed of Aranga wood which is much more durable than the ordinary hard wood. This would raise the original estimate from $10,000 to $14,300. It therefore becomes necessary to provide the additional sum of $4,300 which, with the $5,000 in this year's estimates, and the $5,000 to be re-voted, will meet the revised estimate of the cost of the pier.
The Officer Administering the Government recommends the Council to vote this additional sum of $4,300.
Government House, Hongkong, 25th January, 1886.
The Acting Colonial Secretary moved that this Minute be referred to the Finance Committee. The Colonial Treasurer seconded.
Question-put and passed.
VOTES PASSED BY THE FINANCE COMMITTEE.-The Acting Colonial Secretary moved the following votes passed by the Finance Committee :---
2421 of 1885.
PAYMENTS AUTHORIZED IN EXCESS OF THE ESTIMATES OF 1886.
SERVICES EXCLUSIVE OF ESTABLISHMENTS. Gaol.
2018, For rent of a house in Wyndham Street, to be used as a prison for females, at $40
per month,.............................
Roads, Streets and Bridges.
cs. Erection of a Sea-wall and embankment at Kowloon Point,
14 of 1886.
Miscellaneous Services.
..$ 480.00
.$23,000.00
Career Subscription to the Strangers' Home for Asiatics, Africans, and South Sea Islanders, .....£10.10.0 @ 3/4-$
Despatch of
18 Nov.,
1855,
say,..
Seconded by the Colonial Treasurer.
63.00
Question-put and passed.
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