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Published by Authority.

No. 29.

號九十二第 日二初月六年开

VICTORIA, SATURDAY, 29TH JUNE, 1889.

日九十二月六年九十八百八千一

VOL. XXXV.

簿五十三第

LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL, No. 17.

TUESDAY, 18TH JUNE, 1889.

PRESENT:

HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR (SIR 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).

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

the Acting Registrar General, (NORMAN GILBERT MITCHELL-INNES). the Surveyor General, (SAMPEL BROWN).

PHINEAS RYRIE.

WONG SHING.

CATCHICK PAUL CHATER.

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

JAMES JOHNSTONE Keswick, (vice the Honourable JOHN BELL-IRVING).

The Council met pursuant to notice.

NEW MEMBER. Mr. SAMUEL BROWN, Surveyor General, took the usual Oath and his seat at the Council table, as an Official Member.

The Minutes of the last Meeting, held on the 27th ultimo, were read and confirmed.

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

C. O. Desp.

91 of 1889.

G. WILLIAM DES VEUX.

The Governor recommends the Council to vote the sum of £100, being a gratuity to the father of the late Police Constable STEPHEN Fox, a member of the Fire Brigade, who lost his life by the falling of a wall during the suppression of a fire in November, 1887.

Government House, Hongkong, 8th June, 1889.

The Colonial Secretary movel that this. Vote be referred to the Finance Committee. The Acting Colonial Treasurer seconded.

Question-put and passed.

VOTE PASSED BY THE FINANCE COMMITTEE.-The Colonial Secretary, by direction of His Excel- lency the Governor, laid on the table the Report of the proceedings of the Finance Committee (No. 8), dated the 27th ultimo, and moved that the following Vote referred to therein be passed, viz. :—

C.S.O.

1889 Expenses in connexion with the Fire Brigade :-

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Eve of Establishment,

$ 392.00

1,380.00

$1,772.00

The Acting Colonial Treasurer seconded. Question-put and passed.

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