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THE HONGKONG
Government Gazette.
No. 48.
Published by Authority.
VICTORIA, SATURDAY, 18TH NOVEMBER, 1876.
VOL. XXII.
VOTES AND PROCEEDINGS OF THE LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL OF HONGKONG.
No. 8 OF 1876.
THURSDAY, 21ST SEPTEMBER, 1876.
PRESENT:
His Excellency Governor SIB ARTHUR EDWARD KENNEDY, K.C.M.G., C.B. The Honourable the Colonial Secretary (JOHN GARDINER AUSTIN, C.M.G.). The Honourable the Acting Attorney General (JAMES RUSSELL).
The Honourable the Acting Colonial Treasurer (CHARLES MAY).
The Honourable PHINEAS RYRIE.
The Honourable HENRY Lowcock.
The Honourable WILLIAM KESWICK.
The Council meets this day at 2.30 P.M., by Special Summons.
Before commencing proceedings, the Acting Attorney General, JAMES RUSSELL, takes the Oath as a
Member of the Legislative Council.
The Minutes of the last Meeting of Council are read and confirmed.
The Honourable WILLIAM KESWICK, with the permission of His Excellency, enquires of His Excellency the Governor, whether an answer has been received from the Secretary of State in respect to the suggestion made on the 26th April last, to add a clause to the Bill relating to Chinese Passenger Ships, to empower the Governor in Council to grant Special Licences to Mail and other first class Steamers.
In reply, His Excellency states that no answer has yet been received from Her Majesty's Secretary of State in reference to the clause alluded to.
The following Bills are then laid upon the Table, and read a first time:~-~-~-
A Bill to authorize the Appropriation of a Supplementary Sum not exceeding Fifty-five thousand Dollars, to defray the Charges of the Year 1875.
A Bill to apply a Sum not exceeding Eight hundred and Twenty-six thousand Dollars to the Public Service of the Year 1877.
His Excellency nominates the following Members to form the Sub-Committee to consider and report upon the Estimates:-The Colonial Secretary, the Acting Colonial Treasurer, the Honourable PHINEAS RYRIE, and the Honourable WILLIAM KESWICK.
His Excellency the Governor informs the Council, that after lengthened consideration and corres- pondence, it had been decided with reference to the Ordinance relating to the "China Traders' Insurance Company, Limited," that any measure dealing with the question of subdivision of shares should have a general and not a special application. The Acting Attorney General would, therefore, lay a Bill upon the Table having for its object the repeal of Ordinance No. 4 of 1876 and the amendment of the Companies Ordinance, 1865.
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The Acting Attorney General then introduces a Bill to repeal No. 4 of 1876 and to amend the Companies Ordinance, 1865. The Bill is read a first time.
His Excellency next lays before the Council various papers which had been already circulated amongst Honourable Members in connection with a proposal from the Secretary of State that Hongkong should join the International Postal Union."
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