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THE HONGKONG

Government Gazette.

韓 報門

港

Published by Authority.

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No. 34.

號四十三第B一十二月五年申甲

VICTORIA, SATURDAY, 14TH JUNE, 1884.

日四十月六年四十八百八千一

VOL. XXX.

簿十三第

LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL No. 16.

THURSDAY, 5TH JUNE, 1884.

PRESENT:

HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR

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

His Honour the Acting Chief Justice (JAMES RUSSELL.)

The Honourable the Acting Colonial Secretary, (FREDERICK STEWART.)

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

the Colonial Treasurer, (ALFRED LISTER.)

the Surveyor General, (Jons MACNEILE PRICE.)

PHINEAS RYRIE.

WILLIAM KESWICK.

THOMAS JACKSON.

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FREDERICK David Sassoon.

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WONG SHING.

ABSENT:

His Honour the Chief Justice, (SIR GEORGE PHILLIPPO, Kut.), on leave. The Honourable the Colonial Secretary, (WILLIAM HENRY MARSH, C.M.G.), on leave.

HENRY GEORGE THOMSETT, R.N., by leave.

The Council met in pursuance of adjournment.

Minutes read and confirmed.

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

The Governor recommends the Council to vote the following sun:—

A sum not exceeding Sixty-three thousand dollars ($63,000) in payment of the contribution due from Hongkong to lessen the loss sustained by the Imperial Treasury on the Eastern Mail Service from the 1st of February, 1883, to the 31st of December, 1884, at the rate of £6,000 per annum.

From the papers on this subject which have already been presented, the Council is aware that, since 1879, this question has been under the consideration of Her Majesty's Government. Successive Secretaries of State have done their utmost to obtain the assent of the Imperial Treasury to a reduction of the sum originally put forward as this Colony's share of the loss, and the present Secretary of State has now communicated the final decision of the Imperial Government.