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THE HONGKONG

Government Gazette.

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Published by Authority.

VICTORIA, SATURDAY, 17TH OCTOBER, 1885.

No. 52.

VOL. XXXI.

號二十五第

日十初月九年乙 日七十月十年五十八百八千一 簿一十三第

LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL No. 27.

MONDAY, 1ST JUNE, 1885.

PRESENT:

HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR

(SIR GEORGE FERGUSON BOWEN, G.C.M.G.)

The Honourable the Colonial Secretary, (WILLIAM HENRY MARSH, C.M.G.)

the Attorney General, (EDWARD LOUGHLIN O'MALLEY.)

the Colonial Treasurer, (ALFRED LISTER.)

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the Surveyor General, (JOHN MACNEILE PRICE.)

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the Registrar General (Fornesse SpuriRT,

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THOMAS JACKSON.

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ABSENT:

His Honour the Chief Justice, (SIR GEORGE PHILLIPPO, Knt.), on leave.

The Honourable WILLIAM KESWICK, on leave.

The Council met pursuant to adjournment.

Minutes read and confirmed.

CLOSING OF THE SESSION.-His Excellency the Governor closed the Session with the following Speech:--

HONOURABLE GENTLEMEN OF THE LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL,

1. The satisfactory conclusion to which you have carried no small amount of public business enables me now to close this Session.

2. Several measures of importance will be prepared by my Government during the recess for

your consideration at your next Meeting. As I have stated on a previous occasion, I understand it to be generally agreed that the public convenience will be best consulted by year. But it opening the Annual Session of the Council in the month of November of each will be necessary to have a Special Meeting in next September to consider the Estimates for 1886. It has been found to be practically impossible to calculate accurately at an earlier period the probable revenue and expenditure of the ensuing year.

3. I will now proceed, according to the practice established in all Colonies, to lay before the Legislature a brief summary of the present condition of Hongkong, with regard to Finance, Legislation, Public Works, Education, the Public Institutions, and the Police.

4. With regard to. Finance;I thank you, in the name of the QUEEN, for the supplies which you have voted for Her Majesty's service in this Colony, and as a contribution to the cost of the Defence Works. The Report of the Colonial Secretary and Auditor General shows that the probable assets of the Colony on the 31st of next December will