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Hong Kong Annual Administration Reports, 1841-1941
COLONIAL REPORTS.
-ANNUAL.
No. 9.—An Ordinance to amend “The Merchant Shipping Consolidation Ordinance, 1891.'
No. 10.-An Ordinance for the incorporation of the Chairman of the Committee of the Diocesan School and Orphanage.
No. 11.-An Ordinance to provide for the due performance of divine worship and other services in accordance with the rites of the Church of England at St. John's Cathedral Church at Victoria in this Colony and elsewhere, to incorporate a Church body, to vest the said Cathedral in such body and for other purposes in connexion therewith.
No. 12.-An Ordinance to apply a sum not exceeding Two millions two hundred and fifty-six thousand three hundred and seventy-five dollars to the public service of the year 1893.
No. 13. An Ordinance to authorise the Appropriation of a Supplementary Sum of Three hundred and sixty thousand six hundred and eighty-seven dollars and thirty-seven cents to defray the charges of the year 1891.
No. 14. An Ordinance entitled "The United Kingdom Probates Ordinance, 1892."
No. 15.-An Ordinance to repeal Section 45 of Ordinance No. 8 of 1860, and to amend Schedule A to Ordinance No. 1 of 1883.
Of these the more important were No. 2 and No. 4.
Ordinance No. 2.-The necessity for this Ordinance arose from certain difficulties in the way of granting Letters Patent, and it was thought desirable to consolidate the law at the time of amending it.
Ordinance No. 11 was rendered necessary by the abolition of the Colonial Chaplaincy, and the withdrawal of State aid from the Church of England in the Colony.
In accordance with its provisions the Cathedral Church has been handed over to trustees after being put in a thorough state of repair.
COUNCILS.
During the year Mr. G. T. M. O'Brien assumed his seat on both Councils as Colonial Secretary, Mr. F. A. Cooper's appointment to a seat on both Councils during his tenure of the office of Director of Public Works was confirmed, and Mr. R. M. Rumsey, Harbour Master, was appointed to the seat on the Legislative Council vacant by the retirement of Mr. Deane, late Captain Superintendent of Police.
In January the Legislative Council sustained a loss by the death of the Honourable P. Ryrie, who had been a member for