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THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 22ND JANUARY, 1879.
VOTES AND PROCEEDINGS OF THE LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL OF HONGKONG.
No. 5 of 1878.
MONDAY, 18TH NOVEMBER, 1878.
PRESENT:
His Excellency Governor J. POPE HENNESSY, C.M.G.
The Honourable the Acting Chief Justice (FRANCIS SNOWDEN).
The Honourable the Acting Colonial Secretary (CHARLES MAY).
The Honourable the Acting Colonial Treasurer (JOHN MACNEILE PRICE).
The Honourable PHINEAS RYRIE.
The Honourable HENRY Lowcock.
The Honourable WILLIAM KESWICK.
The Honourable THOMAS CHILD HAYLLAR, Q.C.
ABSENT:
The Honourable the Attorney General (GEORGE PHILLIPPO), from indisposition.
The Mintues of the last Meeting of Council are read and confirmed.
The Honourable JOHN MACNEILE PRICE, with the permission of His Excellency, lays upon the Table and details Estimates, which he had prepared, showing the cost of different schemes of Gaol
reconstruction.
The discussion regarding Gaol reconstruction is continued and is brought to a conclusion.
The Honourable HENRY LOWCOCK gives notice that at the next meeting he will move that the correspondence between the Government and the Supreme Court, the Magistrates and the Police Department, with reference to every case deported or recommended to the Executive for deportation since April, 1877, be laid on the Table.
His Excellency said that he would at once agree to have the correspondence alluded to laid on the Table.
His Excellency adjourns the Council sine die.
Read and confirmed, this 18th day of January, 1879.
H. E. WODEHOUSE,
Clerk of Councils.
J. POPE HENNESSY,
Governor..
VOTES AND PROCEEDINGs of the leGISLATIVE COUNCIL OF HONGKONG,
No. 6 of 1878.
SATURDAY, 21ST DECEMBER, 1878.
PRESENT:
His Excellency Governor J. POPE HENNESSY, C.M.G.
The Honourable the Acting Chief Justice (FRANCIS SNOWDEN). The Honourable the Acting Colonial Secretary (CHARLES MAY).
The Honourable the Attorney General (GEORGE PHILLIPPO).
The Honourable the Acting Colonial Treasurer (JOHN MACNEILE PRICE).
The Honourable PHINEAS RYRIE.
The Honourable HENRY LOWCOCK.
The Honourable WILLIAM KESWICK.
The Honourable THOMAS CHILD Hayllar, Q.C.
The reading of the Minutes of the last Meeting is postponed until the next Meeting. On the motion of Ilis Excellency the Governor, the Standing Orders are suspended and His Excellency moves the following address on the death of Her Royal Highness the Princess ALICE:-
"We the Governor and Legislative Council of Hongkong venture from this distant portion of the "Empire to offer to your Majesty our sincere condolence in the affliction your Majesty has sustained. "by the death of Her Royal Highness the Princess ALICE.'
The motion is seconded by the Honourable PHINEAS RYRIE, and is carried unanimously.
On the motion of His Excellency the Governor, the Appropriation Bill, 1879, is read a second time, committed; and, after one or two alterations and additions, is passed, bearing the Title of "An Ordinance enacted by the Governor of Hongkong, with the advice of the Legislative Council thereof, to appropriate a sum not exceeding Seven hundred and Seventy-nine thousand Dollars to the public service of the year 1879," being "Ordinance No. 5 of 1878."
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