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THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 18TH JUNE, 1881.
VOTES AND PROCEEDINGS OF THE LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL OF HONGKONG.
NO. 3 OF 1881.
FRIDAY, 3RD JUNE, 1881.
PRESENT:
His Excellency Governor Sir JOHN POPE HENNESSY, K.C.M.G.
The Honourable the Acting Chief Justice,-FRANCIS SNOWDEN.
The Honourable the Acting Colonial Secretary,-FREDERICK STEWART,
The Honourable the Attorney General,-EDWARD Loughlin O'Malley.
The Honourable the Acting Colonial Treasurer,-MALCOLM STRUAN TONNOCHY.
The Honourable NG CHOY.
The Honourable F. BULKELEY JOHNSON.
ABSENT:
The Honourable PHINEAS RYRIE, on leave.
The Honourable WILLIAM KESWICK, on leave.
The Honourable JOHN MACNEILE PRICE, on leave.
The Minutes of the last Meeting of Council, held on the 14th March last, are read and confirmed. The Governor lays upon the table the Census Returns for 1881, and makes a statement on the progress of the Colony since the preceding Census of 1876.
On the motion of the Governor, it is agreed that the Census papers be printed.
His Excellency moves for leave to introduce a Bill entitled "The Penal Ordinances Amendment Ordinance, 1881," accompanying his motion with some explanatory remarks, and laying on the table Copies or Extracts of Despatches and other Papers relating to Remission of Sentences, Illegal branding and flogging, and the Penal Legislation in Hongkong.
The motion is carried and the Bill is then read a first time.
Second reading to be taken at the next meeting.
Read a first time a Bill entitled "Banishment and Conditional Pardons Ordinance 1881.” The following papers are also laid upon the table :-
Returns relating to sales of property registered in the Land Office between January, 1880, and May, 1881.
Copies of Correspondence relating to Chinese Emigration to Australia, 1878 to 1880.
Surveyor General's (Mr. PRICE's) letter of the 30th June, 1880, and subsequent correspondence, relating to Water Supply and Sanitation in Hongkong.
Copies and Extracts of Despatches of 1877, relating to Opium Smuggling from Hongkong to China.
A letter from the Acting Registrar General asking for the usual quarterly subscription of $500 to the District Watchmen's Fund, together with certain returns on the subject.
On the motion of the Governor, the following votes, which had been already sanctioned by the Finance Committee, are passed :-
PAYMENTS AUTHORIZED IN EXCESS OF THE ESTIMATES OF 1880. REQUIRING LEGISLATIVE AUTHORITY.
ESTABLISHMENTS.
Postmaster General.
Contingencies :-Excess,-Manufacturing Postage Dies and Plates of 5 and
10 cents, £276.16.6, and proportional Insurance, &c., £5.14.8 @ 3/97,
$1,478.24
Dies, Post Card forms, and Post Cards, £242.17.8
@@ 3/97,....
Date Plugs, &c., £4.14.3 @ 3/97.
1.270.67 24.65
$2,773.56
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