ASSETS AND LIABILITIES ON 31ST DECEMBER, 1915, AND 31 DECEMBFR, 1916,
(ESTIMATED).
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HONGKONG LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL
17TH OCTOBER, 1916.
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RECE REGS | DEC 16
Dr.
1915.
1916.
Revenue, Expenditure,
Revenue, .. 11,796.108,73
15,149,267.54 Expenditure,
$13,274,000.00 11,817,670.00
ty
Deficit,...
Bulance of Assets, (1914),
Defirit, (1915),
*
3,963,160.81 2,910,473.97
452.686.84
Surplus,............ 1,456,380.00 452,686.84 Deficit, (1915),
Balance of Assets, (1916), & 1,003,643.16
Inscribed Stock Issues
LOAN ACCOUNT.
1913.
1916.
Cr.
1915.
1916 (Estimated).
of 1893 Mod 1906 at
3% interest, 10 be
paid off on the 15th
April, 1943, .....
....£1,455,732, 16. 5 £1,485,732. 16, 5 Sinking Fond,, £210,855, H. 3. £236,190. 0. 0.
DONGKONG, 11th October, 1916.
E. D. C. WOLFE, Treasurer.
PRESENT:
HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR SIR FRANCIS HENRY MAY, E.C.MG.
HIS EXCELLENCY MAJOR-GENERAL F. VENTRIS (General Officer Commanding Troops in China).
HON. MR. CLAUD SEVERN (Colonial Secretary).
HON. MR. J. H. KEMP (Attorney- General).
HON. MR. E. D. C. WOLFE (Colonial Treasurer).
HON. MR. E. R. HALLIFAX (Secre tary for Chinese Affairs).
HON. MR. W. CHATHAM, C.M.G. (Director of Public Works).
HON. MR. C. McL. MESSER (Captain Buperintendent of Police).
HON. MR. WEI YUK, C.M.G. HON. Ma, H. E. POLLOCK, 1.0.
HON. MR. E. SHELLIM. HON. MR. D. LANDALE. HON. MR. LAU CHU PAK. HON. MR. P. H. HOLYOAK.
MR. A. G. M. FLETCHER (Clerk of Councils).
Minutes
The minutes of the last meeting were confirmed.
Papers
THE COLONIAL SECRETARY, by command of H.E. the Governor, laid apon the table Sessional paper, 13, being the agreement for removal of prisoners of war under sentence from Wei-hai-wei to Hongkong, and Sessional paper 15, being the financial statement in connection with the estimates for 1907.
Finance
THE COLONIAL SECRETARY. by command of H.E. the Governor, laid upon the table report of meeting of the Finance (Committee held on October 3rd (No. 7), and moved that it be adopted.
THE COLONIAL TREASURER second- ed, and this was agreed.
THE COLONIAL SECRETARY. by command of H.E. the Governor, laid upon the table Financial Minutes Nos. 30 to 33, and moved that they be referred to the Finance Committee.
THE COLONIAL TREASURER second.
ed, and this was agreed to,
Transfer of Prisoners from Wei-hai-wei
THE COLONIAL SECRETARY pro- posed: "That the President and Mem- bers of the Legislative Council of the Colony of Hongkong 10 approve of the Agreement dated the 29th day of July, 1916, made between His Excellency Sir Francis Henry May, K.C.M.G., Governor of Hongkong, and His Honour Sir James Haldane Stewart Lockhart, K.C.M.G., Commissioner of Wai-hai-wei. for the re- moval of Prisoners under sentence or order of transportation, imprisonment or penal servitude at Wei-hai-wei to Hong- kong for the purpose of undergoing their punishment at Hongkong and of an address being presented to His Most Gracious Majesty King George V. pray- ing that His Majesty may be pleased to sanction an Order-in-Council' allowing the removal of such prisoners on terms contained in such Agreement which is laid upon the table of this Council."
HỌN. ME, WEI YUK seconded, and the resolution was carried.
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Public Health THE COLONIAL SECRETARY pro Section posed the following resolution under of the Public Health and Buildings Ordinance, 1013: - "Whereas application has been duly made by the Sanitary Board to the Governor under Section Public Health and Buildings Ordinance, 1903, for the erection on the site of the existing Public Urinal situate at the junc- tion of Albany, Garden, Peak and Robin- Bon Roads of an underground trough
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