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THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 18TH FEBRUARY, 1882.

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Mr. JOHNSON pursuant to notice asks the following question:---

Why the sittings of the Education Commission, nominated on the 27th August, 1880, have been suspended, and when they will be resumed?

The Acting Colonial Treasurer replies.

The Acting Colonial Secretary moves the approval of the following sums which have passed the Finance Committee, and they are unanimously approved :-

ESTABLISHMENTS.

Postmaster General.

No. 2448.

C. Personal Allowance of $40 per month to Postmaster General, from 13th

July to 30th November, 1881,

Medical.

C.S.0.

6272 Apothecary and Analyst in the Civil Hospital, annual increase of $96 per

annum, from 23rd September to 30th November, 1881,

EXCLUSIVE OF ESTABLISHMENTS.

Surveyor General.

C.S.0. No. 2412.

CO Rent of Quarters for the Clerk of Works, at $30 per month, from 24th

August to 30th November, 1881,..

C.S.0.

Works and Buildings.

2. Repairs to Buildings, Supplementary Vote,........ c. Purchase of 56 Iron Telegraph Posts, at $15 each,

No. 2201. C.S.0.

3. Purchase of 81 Insulators, &c.,

$184.51

$18.13

$97.74

$3.000.00

840.00

81.00

$3,921.00

Roads, Streets, and Bridges.

C.S.O. No. 2822.

Watering Streets, Supplementary Vote,

$100.00

Government Gardens and Plantations.

C.S.0.

No. 2400.

Repairing Damages caused by a Land Slip in Glenealy Ravine of the New

Garden,

Miscellaneous Services.

$1,200.00

0.5.0. Grant to the Humane Society,

No. 2373.

Grant for the Reception of Their Royal Highnesses Princes ALBERT VICTOR

and GEORGE of Wales,

$ 250.00

$10,000.00

Mr. JOHNSON as a point of order rises to call attention to a notice of a resolution he had wished to move to-day.

The Governor explains that he would have been unable to put the motion referred to, as it was irregular and out of order and it therefore could not appear on the Order Book, being a motion for papers sent by the Honourable Member to the Secretary of State for His Lordship's decision which was not yet signified; and His Excellency refers to the practice in the Imperial Parliament as well as the precedent in 1859 in this Colony when the Lieutenant-Governor declined at this Council table to allow a similar motion to be put.

Mr. JOHNSON gives notice of his intention to enter a protest against His Excellency's decision.