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THE HONGKONG
Government Gazette.
No. 21.
Published by Authority.
VICTORIA, SATURDAY, 18TH MAY, 1872.
VOL. XVIII.
VOTES AND PROCEEDINGS OF THE LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL OF HONGKONG.
No. 5 OF 1872.
MONDAY, 29TH APRIL, 1872.
PRESENT:
His Excellency Governor SIR ARTHUR EDWARD KENNEDY, K.C.M.G., C.B. The Honorable the Acting Chief Justice (HENRY JOHN BALL).
The Honorable the Acting Colonial Secretary (CECIL CLEMENTI SMITII). The Honorable the Acting Attorney General (THOMAS CHILD Hayllar). The Honorable the Acting Treasurer (CHARLES MAY).
The Honorable PHINEAS RYRIE.
The Honorable WILLIAM KESWICK. The Honorable HENRY Lowcock.
The Honorable JAMES GREIG.
The Council meets this day at 3 P.M., by Special Summons.
The Minutes of the Council held on the 16th April, are read and confirmed. His Excellency opens the proceedings by stating that he has convened the Council more especially for the purpose of rectifying a mistake which had occurred at the last Meeting on his being sworn into Office, in that, whilst the Royal Instructions issued to him on the 13th of February, 1872, directed that he should take the Oath of Allegiance prescribed by the Imperial Act 31 and 32 Victoria, Chapter 72, he had taken the Oath laid down in the Imperial Act 21 and 22 Victoria, Chapter 48, as ordered in the Royal Instructions to his Predecessor, of the 14th October, 1865. His Excellency then requests the Honorable the Acting Chief Justice to administer to him the Oath of Allegiance required by his Instructions,--and such Oath is administered to His Excellency accordingly.
His Excellency then informs the Council that the Secretary of State had very strongly impressed upon him the necessity of putting down Gambling in the Colony; and that being fully alive to the importance of the subject, he would not hesitate to call on the Council for the adoption of more stringent measures for the suppression of the vice, should experience show that those at present in force are inadequate to deal with the question.
His Excellency lays on the Table a Statement showing certain Items of Expenditure in excess of the Estimates for 1872 requiring Legislative sanction, and by direction of His Excellency these Items are explained seriatim by the Honorable the Acting Colonial Secretary,
His Excellency then moves that the following Sums, as set down in the Statement on the Table, be
placed on the Supplementary Estimates for 1872; namely:---
Medical Department.
(1.) Rent of Quarters for Inspectors of Brothels, at $30 per mensem, (2.) Allowance to the Ward-Master of the Civil Hospital at $5 per mensen,
$360.
$60.
Question put and carried.
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