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THE HONG KONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, OCTOBER 2, 1931.

3. The answer is in the affirmative.

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4. Not as a rule. Payment has been made in the case of one Hong Kong Government employee. A grant of $5,000 to the Shek-lung Leper Asylum was included in the Estimates for 1931 but payment has not been made owing to retrenchment. It is felt that no actual liability rests on this Colony for non-British lepers.

5. There is no definite information. Forty lepers have been sent away by

the police during the first six months of the present year.

6. No steps have been taken to enforce the provisions of Ordinance No. 24 of 1910 in the matter of providing leper asylums or of making regulations under section 13.

REPORT OF THE FINANCE COMMITTEE.

5. The Colonial Secretary laid on the table the Report of the Finance Committee

(No. 8), dated the 16th July, 1931, and moved its adoption.

The Colonial Treasurer seconded.

Question-put and agreed to.

6. The Colonial Secretary moved:-

MOTIONS.

That this Council approves the payment from the funds of the Colony of a sum of $2,000,000 to the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty in return for the surrender to the Hong Kong Government of the Naval Arsenal Yard and Kellet Island, payment of the said sum being regulated as follows:

In 1931-$500,000 of which $236,259 is chargeable to Praya East

Reclamation Funds.

In 1932.-$1,000,000.

In 1933.--$500,000.

The Colonial Treasurer seconded. Question-put and agreed to.

7. The Colonial Secretary moved:-

That the By-law made by the Sanitary Board under section 16 of the Public Health and Buildings Ordinance, 1903, on the 4th day of Angust, 1931, be adopted.

The Attorney General seconded. Question-put and agreed to.

8. The Attorney General moved :—

That the rule dated 23rd day of July, 1931, made by the Registrar of Patents under section 11 of the Registration of United Kingdom Patents Ordi- nance, 1925, be approved.

The Colonial Secretary seconded.

Question-put and agreed to.

9. Magistrates Amendment Bill.-The Attorney General addressed the Council and moved the First reading of a Bill intituled "An Ordinance to amend the Magistrates Ordinance, 1890."

The Colonial Secretary seconded.

Question-put and agreed to.

Bill read a first time.

10. Official Signatures Fees Amendment Bill.-The Attorney General addressed the Council and moved the First reading of a Bill intituled "An Ordinance to amend the Official Signatures Fees Ordinance, 1888."