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THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 10TM MAY, 1878.
VOTES AND PROCEEDINGS OF THE LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL OF HONGKONG.
No. 10 or 1873.
MONDAY, 5TH MAY, 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 SMITH). The Honorable the Attorney General (JULIAN PAUNCEFOTE).
The Honorable the Acting Treasurer (CHARLES MAY).
The Honorable HENRY JOHN BALL.
The Honorable PHDEAS RYRIE,
The Honorable RICHARD ROWETT, and
ABSENT:
The Honorable JAMES WHITTALL,-absent on leave.
The Council meets this day at 2.30 P.M., pursuant to adjournment.
The Minutes of the Council held on the 30th April, are read and confirmed.
The Bill for the Repression of Abuses in relation to Chinese Emigration, as amended in Committee during the previous Sittings of the Council, is re-committed, and discussed Clanse by Clause.
Several alterations and additions being made, it is agreed that the final consideration of the Bill, as amended, be deferred till the next Meeting of the Council.
His Excellency adjourns the Council at 5 minutes past 5 o'clock, until to-morrow, the 6th
instant, at 2 P.M.
Read and confirmed, this 5th Day of May, 1873.
L. D'ALMADA e Castro,
Clerk of Councils.
A. E. KENNEDY,
Governor.
VOTES AND PROCEEDINGS OF THE LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL OF HONGKONG.
No. 11 of 1873.
TUESDAY, 6TH MAY, 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 SMITH).
The Honorable the Attorney General (JULIAN PAUNCEFOTE).
The Honorable the Acting Treasurer (CHARLES MAY).
The Honorable HENRY JOHN BALL.
The Honorable WILLIAM HASTINGS ALEXander.
The Honorable PHINEAS RYRIE,
The Honorable RICHARD ROWETT, and
ABSENT:
The Honorable JAMES WHITTALL,-absent on leave.
The Council meets this day at 2 P.M., pursuant to adjournment.
The Minutes of the Council held yesterday, are read and confirmed.
The Council resolves itself into a Committee and resumes consideration of the Bill for the Repression
of Abuses in relation to Chinese Emigration."
Certain Sections are discussed and amended.
It is then moved by the Honorable the Chief Justice, and seconded by the Honorable HENRY JOHN BALL, that a Clause be inserted in the Bill empowering the Supreme Court to award Restitution to innocent Owners and Mortgagces.
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