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THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 23RD DECEMBER, 1893.

The Colonial Secretary moved that the Council do resolve into Committee.

The Colonial Treasurer seconded.

Question-that the Council do resolve into Committee-put and agreed to.

In Committee the Colonial Secretary moved that the Bill be referred to the Finance Committee. The Colonial Treasurer seconded.

Question-put and agreed to.

BILL ENTITLED “AN ORDINANCE TO AUThorise the APPROPRIATION OF A SUPPLEMENTARY SUM OF Two HUNDRED AND THIRTY-FIVE THOUSAND Öne hundred and EleveN DOLLARS AND NINETY-THREE CENTS TO DEFRAY THE CHARGES OF THE YEAR 1892."-The Colonial Treasurer moved the second reading of this Bill.

The Colonial Secretary seconded.

Question-put and agreed to.

Bill read a second time.

The Colonial Treasurer moved that the Council do resolve into Committee.

The Colonial Secretary seconded.

Question-that the Council do resolve into Committee-put and agreed to.

In Committee the Colonial Treasurer moved that the Bill be referred to the Finance Committee. The Colonial Secretary seconded.

Question-put and agreed to.

ADJOURNMENT.-The Council then adjourned sine die.

Read and confirmed, this 21st day of December, 1893.

ARATHOON SETH,

Clerk of Councils.

WILLIAM ROBINSON,

Governor.

GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.-No. 468.

His Excellency the Governor has been pleased to appoint Tuesday, the 2nd January, 1894, to be observed as a holiday in the Government Departments, in addition to the following Public Holidays prescribed by Section 6 of The Holidays Ordinance, 1875, viz. :—

Christmas Day.

The 26th day of December. The 1st day of January.

By Command,

Colonial Secretary's Office, Hongkong, 21st December, 1893.

GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION. -No. 469.

G. T. M. OBRIEN,

Colonial Secretary.

The following is published.

By Command,

G. T. M. OBRIEN, Colonial Secretary.

Colonial Secretary's Office, Hongkong, 22nd December, 1893.

REGULATION

Made by the Governor in Council under Section 2 of "The Holidays Ordinance, 1875" (No. 6 of 1875), this 21st

day of December, 1893,

The Police Magistrates Department shall be, and the same is hereby, excluded from the operation of the above recited Ordinance on Christmas Day and the 26th day of December instant.

ARATHOON SETH, Clerk of Councils.

COUNCIL CHAMBER,

HONGKONG.