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THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 31ST OCTOBER, 1885.

BILLS READ A SECOND TIME.-On the motion of the Acting Colonial Secretary, seconded by the Colonial Treasurer, the following Bills were read a second time:~

(1.) The Supplementary Appropriation Bill for 1884.

(2.) The Appropriation Bill for 1886.

On the motion of the Attorney General, the following Bills were read a second time:--

(1.) A Bill entitled The Loan Ordinance, 1885.

Seconded by the Acting Colonial Secretary.

Seconded by the Acting Colonial Secretary.

(2.) A Bill entitled The Prison Ordinance, 1885. (3.) A Bill entitled An Ordinance to amend Ordinance 8 of 1860. Seconded by the Chief Justice. Question-put and passed.

BILLS REFERRED TO THE FINANCE COMMITTEE.-The Acting Colonial Secretary moved that the two Bills proposed by him be referred to the Finance Cominittee.

The Colonial Treasurer seconded.

Question-put and passed.

The Attorney General moved, and the Colonial Treasurer seconded, that the Bill entitled The Loan Ordinance, 1885, be referred to the Finance Committee.

Question-put and passed.

The Attorney General gave notice that at the next meeting of Council he would move that the Council go into Committee on the following Bills:-

A Bill entitled The Prison Ordinance, 1885.

A Bill entitled An Ordinance to amend Ordinance 8 of 1860.

The Council adjourned until Wednesday, the 28th instant, at 4 P.M.

Read and confirmed, this 28th day of October, 1885.

ARATHOON SETH, Clerk of Councils.

G. F. BOWEN, Governor.

GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.-No. 406.

His Excellency the Governor has given his assent, in the name and on behalf of the Queen, to the following Ordinances passed by the Legislative Council:-

Ordinance No. 16 of 1885.—An Ordinance enacted by the Governor of Hongkong, with the

advice of the Legislative Council thereof, to authorise the Appropriation of a Supplementary Sum of Two.hundred and Forty-two thousand and Seventy-nine Dollars and Twenty Cents to defray the Charges of the Year 1884.

Ordinance No. 17 of 1885.-An Ordinance enacted by the Governor of Hongkong, with the

advice of the Legislative Council thereof, to apply a sum not exceeding One million Two thousand Nine hundred and Eighty-two Dollars to the Public Service of the Year 1886.

By Command,

Colonial Secretary's Office, Hongkong, 31st October, 1885.

FREDERICK STEWART,

Acting Colonial Secretary.