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No. 48.
Published by Authority.
VICTORIA, SATURDAY, 27TH OCTOBER, 1888.
號八十四第 日三十二月九年戊 日七十二月十年八十八百八千一
LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL. No. 18.
VOL. XXXIV.
簿四十三第
* WEDNESDAY, 17TH OCTOBER, 1888.
PRESENT:
HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR
(SIR G. WILLIAM DES VEUX, K.C.M.G.)
His Honour the Acting Chief Justice (JAMES RUSSELL, C.M.G.), vice His Honour SIR
GEORGE PHILLIPPO, Knt., on leave.
The Honourable the Colonial Secretary, (FREDERICK STEWART).
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the Attorney General, (EDWARD LOUGHLIN O'MALLEY).
the Acting Colonial Treasurer. (HENRY ERNEST WODEHOUSE, C.M.G.). the Surveyor General, (Jons MACNEILE PRICE).
PHINEAS RYRIE.
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the Captain Superintendent of Police, (WALTER MEREDITH DEANE).
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WONG SHING.
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JOHN BELL-IRVING.
Bendyshe Laytox, (vice the Honourable ALEXAnder Palmer MacEwen),
on leave.
ABSENT:
The Honourable CATCHICK PAUL CHATER, on leave.
The Council met pursuant to notice.
The Minutes of the last Meeting, held on the 28th August last, were read and confirmed. GOVERNOR'S MESSAGE. ESTIMATES, 1889.-Read the following Message from His Excellency the
Governor:-
G. WILLIAM DES VEUX.
The Governor has directed to be laid on the table for the consideration of the Legislative Council the Estimates of Revenue and Expenditure for 1889.
REVENUE.
With the taxation remaining as at present the Estimate of Ordinary Revenue would have been $1,710,818, or an increase of $303,148 as compared with the estimated, and of some $253,000 as compared with what will probably be the actual, Revenue of 1888, provision requiring to be made for the largely enhanced price obtained for the new Opium Farm Contract, which will affect nine months of the coming year, and also for substantial improvement in various other items, due principally to the rapidly growing population and increasing prosperity of the Colony, and also in part, as regards Assessed taxes, to more careful rating and better collection.
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