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HONGKONG LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL .

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6TH NOVEMBER, 1914.

PRESENT:

HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR, SIR F. H. MAY, K.C.M.G.

HIS EXCELLENCY MAJOR-GENERAL F. H. KELLY, C.B. (General Officer Command- ing Troops).

HON. MR. CLAUD SEVERN (Colonial Secretary).

HON. MR. J. H. KEMP (Attorney- General).

HON. MR. E. D. C. WOLFE (Colonial Treasurer).

HON. MR. A. F. CHURCHILL (Director of Public Works).

Financial

THE COLONIAL SECRETARY, by command of H. E. the Governor, laid on the table Financial Minutes Nos. 67 to 72, and moved that they be referred to the Finance Committee.

THE COLONIAL TREASURER second- ed, and the motion was agreed to.

Alien Enemies (Winding up)

Amendment Ordinanc

THE

ATTORNEY-GENERAL-It is not proposed, Sir, to deal with the first item on the Orders of the Day, the Bill

HON. MR. E. R. HALLIFAX (Secre- entitled, "An Ordinance to amend the tary for Chinese Affairs).

HON. MR. C. McI. MESSER (Captain Superintendent of Police).

HON. MR. WEI YUK, C.M.G. HON. MR. H. E. POLLOCK, к.0. HON. MR. E. A. HEWETT, C.M.G. HON. MR. D. LANDALE. HON. MR. LAU CHU PAK.

MR. M. J. BREEN (Clerk of Councils).

Minutes

The minutes of the previous meeting were confirmed.

Papers

THE COLONIAL SECRETARY, by command of H. E. the Governor, laid on the table the following papers:-Abstract showing difference between Estimates of Revenue and Estimates of Expenditure for the year 1914-1915; Despatch from the Secretary of State, dated the 11th Septem- ber, on the subject of investigations by the Imperial Institute for private individuals and firms; and quarterly return Excesses on sub-heads met by savings under heads of expenditure.

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Alien Enemies (Winding Up) Ordinance.'

Medical Registration Amendment

THE

Ordinance

ATTORNEY-GENERAL

moved

the first reading of a Bill entitled, "An Ordinance to amend the Medical Regio tration Ordinance, 1884.'

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THE COLONIAL SECRETARY second- ed, and the Bill was read a first time.

The Objects and Reasons are a8 follow:

The main object of this Bill is to assimilate as far as possible the qualifications which entitle a medical practitioner to registration in this Colony to the qualifications required in the United Kingdom and in other parts of His Majesty's Dominions.

It accordingly provides that only the following classes of persons shall be entitled to registration here:-

(a.)--Persons registered in some other part

of His Majesty's Dominions, whose qualification is accepted for registra- tion by the General Council of Medical Education and Registration. in the United Kingdom.

(b.) Persons holding a medical degree of

the University of Hongkong.