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THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, MARCH 10, 1911.

DEFENCES (SKETCHING PREVENTION) AMENDMENT BILL-The Attorney General ad- dressed the Council and moved the Second reading of the Bill entitled An Ordinance to amend The Defences (Sketching Prevention) Ordinance, 1895, and to control balloonists and others who have special opportunities for obtaining information respecting the defences of the Colony.

The Colonial Secretary seconded.

Question-put and agreed to.

Bill read a second time.

Council in Committee on the Bill.

Council resumed, and Bill reported with amendments.

The Attorney General moved that the Bill be read a third time.

The Colonial Secretary seconded.

Question-put and agreed to.

Bill read a third time.

Question put-that this Bill do pass.

Bill passed.

JURORS LIST FOR 1911.-Council then considered the Jurors List for 1911 in private.

ADJOURNMENT.-The Council then adjourned until Thursday, the 9th March, 1911.

F. D. LUGARD,

Governor.

Pead and confirmed this 9th day of March, 1911.

R. H. CROFTON,

Clerk of Councils,

APPOINTMENTS, &C.

No. 55-His Excellency the Governor has been pleased to appoint Captain FREDERICK WILLIAM LYONS to act as Captain Superintendent of Police, Superintendent of Fire Brigade and Superintendent of Prison, and PHILIP PEVERIL JOHN WODEHOUSE to act as Deputy Superintendent of Police and of Fire Brigade, during the absence on leave of the Honourable Mr. FRANCIS Josepа Badeley or until further notice, with effect from this date.

9th March, 1911.

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No. 56. His Excellency the Governor has been pleased to appoint Captain FREDERICK WILLIAM LYONSs provisionally, and subject to His Majesty's pleasure, to be an Official Member of the Legislative Council with effect from the 9th instant, during the absence on leave of the Honourable Mr. FRANCIS JOSEPH BADELEY or until further notice.

10th March, 1911.

No. 57.--The Honourable Mr. ALEXANDER MACDONALD THOMSON returned to the Colony on the 27th ultimo and resume 1 duty as Colonial Treasurer.

10th March, 1911.

NOTICES.

COLONIAL SECRETARY'S DEPARTMENT.

No. 58-Pension Minute dated January 1st, 1902, Rule No. 6 paragraph 1, (see Regulations of Hongkong, page 7), is hereby amended by the substitution of the words "three Government Medical Officers nominated by the Governor" for the words "two qualified medical practitioners" in lines 3 and 4.