DROIT.
THE HONGKONG
Government Gazette.
No. 17.
Publisher by Authority.
VICTORIA, SATURDAY, 26TH APRIL, 1873.
VOL. XIX.
VOTES AND PROCEEDINGS OF THE LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL OF HONGKONG.
No. 4 OF 1873.
THURSDAY, 17TH APRIL, 1873.
PRESENT:
His Excellency Governor SIR ARTHUR EDWARD KENNEDY, K.C.M.G., C.B.
The Honorable the Chief Justice (JOHN SMALE).
The Honorable the Acting Colonial Secretary (CECIL CLEMENTI SMITHI). The Honorable the Attorney General (JULIAN PAUNCEFOTE).
The Honorable the Acting Treasurer (CHARLES MAY).
The Honorable HENRY JOIN BALL.
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 24th February, are read and confirmed.
The Honorable RICHARD ROWETT, in pursuance of notice, puts the following Question:"Why the Small-pox Patients have been removed from Stone Cutters' Island to the Civil Hospital;. and if the Government has in view any plan to provide for the proper care of such Patients at some place sufficiently removed from the City of Victoria, to guard the Population as much as is possible against the danger of infection."
Ilis Excellency states in reply, for the information of the Council, that during the past season only seven cases of Small-pox had come under the charge of the Medical Officer of the Civil Hospital; and having obtained the best Medical opinion on the subject, there was no objection to single cases being treated in the Shed near the Hospitals. If, however, the number of Patients increased, they would be sent to Stone Cutters' Island, where appliances, bedding, &c., were kept for the purpose.
Read a first time, a Bill to authorize the Appropriation of a Supplementary Sum not exceeding Eighty-one
thousand Dollars to defray the Charges of the Year 1872.
The Honorable the Acting Colonial Secretary, by direction of His Excellency, explains the items of Expenditure borne on the Detailed Supplementary Estimates, as covered by the Bill just read.
Read a first time, a Bill to make better Provision for the Regulation, Inspection and Approval of the Fittings of Ships intended for the Conveyance of Chinese Emigrants, to be embarked at Ports or Places out of the Colony.
The Honorable the Attorney General, by desire of IIis Excellency, states the grounds and reasons upon which the Bill is founded.
Read a Despatch from the Right Honorable the Secretary of State for the Colonies, No. 19 of the 13th February, 1873, transmitting Correspondence relative to the proceedings of a Vessel named the
Fatchoy," engaged in carrying Chinese Coolies to Cuba.
Read
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a first time, a Bill to make further Provision for the Repression of Abuses in relation to Chinese
Emigration.
The Honorable the Attorney General, by direction of His Excellency, states the grounds and reasons upon which the Bill is founded.
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