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THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 27TH SEPTEMBER, 1873. 397
"I further hold that the reason given by His Excellency the Governor for the Estimates being passed quickly, viz.: 'That Her Majesty's Secretary of State for the Colonies required "time to look over and return them before the commencement of the Financial Year,' need "not in future be advanced, if they are, in accordance with regulations, submitted to the "Council before the expiry of the month of June; there will then be ample time for studying "them here before they are sent home."
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Hongkong, 1st September, 1873."
His Excellency adjourns the Council at half-past 5 o'clock.
Read and confirmed, this 23rd Day of September, 1873. ·
L. D'ALMADA E Castro,
Clerk of Councils.
(Signed,)
"P. RYRIE."
A. E. KENNEDY, Governor.
VOTES AND PROCEEDINGS OF THE LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL OF HONGKONG.
No. 18 of 1873.
TUESDAY, 23RD SEPTEMBER, 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 RICHARD ROWETT.
The Honorable WILLIAM HASTINGS ALEXANDER.
The Honorable HENRY JOHN BALL,-on leave.
The Honorable PHINEAS RYRIE.
The Honorable JAMES WHITTALL.
ABSENT:
The Council meets this day at 2.30 P.M., by special Summons.
The Minutes of the Council held on the 26th August, having been read,-
The Honorable the Attorney General desires that it may be recorded, that the silence of Members of Council is not to be considered as though they assented to the statements in the Protest of the Honorable PHINEAS RYRIE, just read, as they did not accord with his recollection of what had taken place.
The Honorable the Chief Justice expresses his opinion, that this Council neither assents to, or dissents
from, the statements in any such Protest.
After which, the Minutes are confirmed.
Read a first time, a Bill to amend the Chines? Emigrant Ship Ordinance, 1873.
His Excellency states that this Bill is introduced pursuant to instructions from the Secretary of State, and the Despatch conveying those instructions, (No. 87 of the 7th July) is laid on the Table
and read.
The Honorable the Acting Colonial Secretary moves the suspension of the Standing Rules, in order
that the Bill may be proceeded with.
Seconded by the Honorable the Attorney General, and carried.
The Standing Orders having been suspended, the Bill is read a second time, committed, and passed. bearing the Title of“ An Ordinance enacted by the Governor of Hongkong, with the Advice of the Legislative Council thereof, to amend the Chinese Emigrant Ship Ordinance, 1873,'"-being "No. 10 of 1873."
Read a second time, the Bill to amend the Law of Property in relation to Covenants and Conditions in Leases, and the Council goes into Committee upon the Clauses of the Bill,--which are ex- plained by the Honorable the Attorney General.
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