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THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, MAY 14, 1915.

The Honourable the Captain Superintendent of Police, (CHARLES MOLLVAINE MESSER).

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Mr. WEI YUK, C.M.G.

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Mr. HENRY EDWARD POLLOCK, K.C.

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Mr. EDBERT ANSGAR HEWETT, C.M.G.

Mr. EDWARD SHELLIM.

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Mr. DAVID LANDALE.

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Mr. Lau Chi PAK.

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ABSENT:

the Secretary for Chinese Affairs, (STEWART BUCKLE CARNE Ross).

The Council met pursuant to summons.

The Minutes of the last Meeting, held on the 22nd April, 1915, were confirmed.

FINANCIAL MINUTES.--The Colonial Secretary laid on the table Financial Minutes Nos. 10 and 11, and moved that they be referred to the Finance Committee :-

No. 10. Miscellaneous Services, Grant to Belgian Red Cross

Fund,

No. 11. Public Works, Extraordinary, Miscellaneous, Exhu-

mations at Kai Lung Wan Cemetery, .

The Colonial Treasurer seconded.

Question-put and agreed to.

€ 100.

$1,800.

REPORT OF THE FINANCE COMMITTEE.--The Colonial Secretary laid on the table the Report of the Finance Committee (No. 5), dated the 22nd April, 1915, and moved its adoption.

The Colonial Treasurer seconded.

Question-put and agreed to.

PAPERS. The Colonial Secretary laid on the table the following papers:--

Report of the Harbour Master for the year 1914.

Report of the Registrar of the Supreme Court for the year 1914.

Report of the Land Officer for the year 1914.

Report of the Superintendent of Prison for the year 1914.

Report on the General Post Office, Hongkong, for the year 1914.

Report of the Public Works Committee dated the 22nd April, 1915.

Return of Excesses on Sub-Heads met by Savings under Heads of Expenditure

for the 1st Quarter of 1915.

Draft Appropriation Account for the year 1914.

SUPPLEMENTARY APPROPRIATION BILL.--The Colonial Secretary moved the First read- ing of a Bill intituled An Ordinance to authorize the Appropriation of a Supplementary Sum of Seven hundred and eighty-seven thousand two hundred and fifty-two Dollars and twenty-six Cents, to defray the Charges of the Year 1914.

The Colonial Treasurer seconded.

Question-put and agreed to.

Bill read a first time.

SOEURS DE SAINT PAUL DE CHARTRES INCORPORATION BILL. Mr. POLLOCK addressed the Council and moved the Second reading of the Bill intituled An Ordinance to provide for the incorporation of the Mother Superior in this Colony of the Society of the "Sœurs de Saint Paul de Chartres by which the institution known as the 'Asile de la Sainte Enfance and as the French Convent is carried on.

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Mr. SHELLIM seconded.

Question-put and agreed to.

Bill read a second time.

Council in Committee on the Bill.