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&
Auditor General, absent
ow
leave
The Council meets this day at 2.30 P. M.
by special Summar
"The Minutes of the Council held on the 27&
November last,
are
read and con
confirmed.
His Excellency The Governor calls the
attention of the Council to recent instructions received from The Secretary of State, directing yo
a new system of licensing
the adoption of Gaming Houses in
Hongkong - which
should be either by lot or tender; provided that, before proceeding to draw lots or
open
tenders, it should be within the power of the Governor with the advice of the
I. I. to Governo
JNO 159 of 7 Octobe
1869.
&
Executive Council, to exclude tenderers who
are
apparently not proper persons to receive a License.
*
• His Excellency then proceeds to
state that the present Licensees will give up
their Licenses
in
15¢
the 18th Proxime,
by dooneAZ
if allowed to do so, and that measures should
therefore be timely taken to fix in Council
the
yearly
for tenders.
amount the Licenses, and call
of
"Discusion follows, and after
deliberation, it is resolved that the total
yearly
be
Fee be fixed at of 100,000, and that Notice
given
to the Publie that Tenders for the. above amount will be received by the
the 20th Instant; - upon the
Government
Express
condition that the parties tendering.
No comments yet.
Private notes are available after approval.