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VICTORIA, SATURDAY, 17TH OCTOBER, 1891.

日七十月十年一十九百八千一

VOL. XXXVII.

LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL, No. 17.

MONDAY, 17TH AUGUST, 1891.

PRESENT:

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HIS EXCELLENCY THE OFFICER ADMINISTERING THE GOVERNMENT (Major-General G. DIGBY BARKER, C.B.).

The Honourable the Acting Colonial Secretary, (WILLIAM MEIGH GOODMAN).

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the Acting Attorney General, (ANDREW JOHN LEACH).

the Registrar General, (JAMES HALDANE STEWART LOCKHART).

the Colonial Treasurer, (NORMAN GILBERT MITCHELL-INNES).

the Surveyor General, (SAMUEL BROWN).

PHINEAS RYRIE.

JAMES JOHNSTONE KESWICK,

HO KAI, M.B., C.M.

THOMAS HENDERSON WHITEHEAD.

ABSENT:

The Honourable CATCHICK PAUL CHATER.

The Council inet pursuant to adjournment.

The Minutes of the last Meeting, held on the 31st July, 1891, were read and confirmed. PAPERS LAID ON THE TABLE.-The Acting Colonial Secretary, by direction of His Excellency the Officer Administering the Government, laid on the table the following papers, viz.:-

Despatch from the Secretary of State No. 144 of the 1st July, 1891.

The Census Report, 1891.

The Honourable HO KAI gave notice that at next meeting of Council he would move the first reading of a Bill entitled An Ordinance for the Incorporation of the Senior Missionary in Hongkong of the London Missionary Society.

The Honourable T. H. WHITEHEAD asked the following question :--

Will the Government lay upon the table capies of the Reports of the Honourable the Surveyor General and of Mr. H. W. Wills in re the proposed new Central Market Building, copies of the Minutes of His Excellency Governor Sir G. W. Des Voeux dated 3rd and 14th April, 1891, and copies of the replies of the Honourable the Surveyor General to the said minutes and to the Reports of Mr. Wills.

His Excellency replied.

BILL ENTITLED "THE ARMS CONSOLIDATION ORDINANCE, 1891."-The Acting Attorney General moved that the Bill be read second time.

The Acting Colonial Secretary seconded.

Question-put and agreed to.

Bill read a second time.

Council went into Committee on the Bill.

Council resumed and Bill reported without amendment.