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THE HONGKONG

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No. 15.

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VICTORIA, SATURDAY, 23RD MARCH, 1889.

日二十二月二年丑己 日三十二月三年九十八百八千一

LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL, No. 7.

THURSDAY, 7TH MARCH, 1889.

PRESENT:

HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR

(Sm G. WILLIAM DES VEUX, K.C.M.G.).

The Honourable the Colonial Secretary (FREDERICK STEWART).

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the Acting Attorney General, (ANDREW JOHN LEACH).

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the Acting Colonial Treasurer, (HENRY ERNEST WODEHOUSE, C.M.G.).

the Surveyor General, (JOHN MACNEILE PRICE).

the Captain Superintendent of Police, (WALTER MEREDITH DEANE).

PHINEAS RYRIE.

WONG SHING.

JOHN BELL-IRVING.

BENDYSHE LAYTON, (vice the Honourable ALEXANDER PALMER MACEWEN). CATCHICK PAUL CHATER.

ABSENT:

The Honourable the Registrar General, (James Haldane Stewart Lockhart).

The Council met pursuant to notice.

The Minutes of the last Meeting, held on the 1st instant, were read and confirmed.

VOTE REFERRED TO THE FINANCE COMMITTEE. Read the following Minute by His Excellency the Governor :-

€,s.0.

359 of 1889.

G. WILLIAM DES VEUX.

The Governor recommends the Council to vote the sum of One hundred and twenty $120. Dollars, as a compassionate allowance to the family of Mr. Ho TSUNG-CHI, late Chinese Writer

in the Registrar General's Department.

Government House, Hongkong, 5th March, 1889.

The Colonial Secretary moved that this Vote be referred to the Finance Committee.

The Acting Treasurer seconded.

Question-put and passed.