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THE HONGKONG
Government Gazette.
No. 47.
Published by Authority,
VICTORIA, SATURDAY, 14TH NOVEMBER, 1874.
VOL. XX.
VOTES AND PROCEEDINGS OF THE LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL OF HONGKONG.
No. 13 or 1874.
MONDAY, 26TH OCTOBER, 1874.
PRESENT:
His Excellency JOHN GARDINER AUSTIN, Administrator.
The Honorable the Chief Justice (SIR JOHN SMALE).
The Honorable the Acting Colonial Secretary (CECIL CLEMENTI SMITH).
The Honorable the Attorney General (JOHN BRAMSTON).
The Honorable the Acting Colonial Treasurer (CHARLES MAY).
The Honorable PHINEAS RYRIE.
The Honorable RICHARD Rowett.
The Honorable WILLIAM HASTINGS ALEXANDER.
The Honorable JAMES Whittall.
The Council meets this day at 2.30 P.M., by Special Summons.
The Minutes of the Council held on the 15th October are being read, when-
The Honorable the Acting Colonial' Secretary rises on a point of order, and moves that the Protest of the Honorable PHINEAS RYRIE be not placed on the Minutes of the Council, because such Protest is against the action of the Head of the Executive, and not against any decision of the majority of the Council.
The Honorable the Acting Treasurer seconds the motion.
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The Honorable the Chief Justice, and the Honorable the Attorney General express their opinion that the Protest referred to cannot properly be entered on the Minutes for the reasons stated.
The Honorable the Acting Colonial Secretary withdraws his motion, leaving the point of order to be
settled by the President.
The Honorable PHINEAS RYRIE moves, that his Protest which he had forwarded to the Clerk of the Councils in his capacity as a Member of this Council, should be placed on the Minutes.
The Honorable RICHARD ROWETT seconds the motion.
His Excellency the Administrator rules that, as a point of order, the Honorable Member's motion cannot be put, nor can his Protest be entered on the Minutes. His Excellency adds, that the Protest will be forwarded to the Secretary of State.
The Minutes of the 15th October, the reading of which is resumed, are then confirmed. His Excellency lays on the Table the Appropriation Bill for 1875, and makes the following Statement:-
"Gentlemen,-The Estimates for 1875 were in the hands of the printers when the Colony was visited by the late disastrous Typhoon. The losses then sustained were so immediately evident, and the damages done to Buildings and Works, both Public and Private, so apparent, that there could be no doubt of the inability of the Colony either to provide the estimated revenue, or to meet the proposed outlay for further works, simultaneously with the heavy and unexpected charges thrown upon it by the Typhoon. The original Estimates were consequently withdrawn, and it was only during the past week that the Reports of the Surveyor General were subitted in a form sufficiently accurate to enable the Government to decide what changes should be made.
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