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THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 27TH JULY, 1872.
(3.) Increase of Pay to the Watchman at the Pokfoolum Reservoir, at the rate of $5 per mensem,
(4.) Additional Allowance to the Overseer of Roads and Telegraph, for keep of a Horse, at the rate of $4 per mensem,
$30.
$24.
Police Magistrates' Department.
Additional Vote for Office Contingencies,
$50.
Government Gardens' Department.
Additional Salary to Mr. FORD, Superintendent of the Government Gardens, pursuant to terms of his agreement,
$28.
Government House.
$961.74.
Purchase of Table-Cutlery, Linen, and other articles of Furniture,............
Works and Buildings.
(1.) Government Gardens :
(a.) Erection of a Tool House and additional Quarters for the Gardeners, $1,200. (b.) Erection of a low rough Wall round the Nursery,
.$160.
(2.) Repairs to the Civil Hospital,
$1,135.
(3.) Ventilation to the Central School,
.$530.
(4.) Gas fittings, Forms, Tables, &c., for the Police School at the Magistracy $411.50. (5.) Sundry alterations, and construction of Ventilators to the Lock Hospital, $284.32. (6.) Laying on Gas services at Government House,.
$119.65.
(7.) Building a Medical Examination Room in Victoria Gaol,
$562.35.
(8.) Building a Magazine at the Central Police Station,.
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$81.41.
.$73.01.
(9.) Erection of a Latrine, &c., at the Western Slaughter House,
His Excellency then moves that there be also placed on the Supplementary Estimates for 1872, the
following Sums in aid of the City Hall Library :--
(1.) For printing 500 copies of the Catalogue of the Library,
(2.) For binding Books,
(3.) For lighting the Library with Gas for 6 months,
Question put and carried.
$360.
$200.
$210.
His Excellency lays on the Table a Bill to authorize the Appropriation of a Supplementary Sum not
exceeding Ninety-nine thousand Dollars to defray the charges of the Year 1871.
The Honorable the Acting Colonial Secretary, by His Excellency's Command, explains that the Bill comprises sums which have already received the assent of the Council, save certain additions under the heads of "Medical Departments" and "Land and Houses purchased," which appear in the detailed Estimates.
The Bill is then read a first time.
The Acting Colonial Secretary lays on the Table a Statement of the Special Fund Account, and says that the same will be printed in due course for the information of Honorable Members. At this stage of the Proceedings, the Honorable PHINEAS RYRIE, leave being obtained, gives notice that at the next Meeting of the Council he would ask if there was any objection to lay before Council the Instructions of the Secretary of State regarding the disposal of the Special Fund. He would further request, that a Statement be laid on the Table showing the Sums expended from that Fund, besides those which had appeared in Documents already published.
The following Bills are read a first time, and, by direction of His Excellency, they are explained
seriatim by the Honorable the Acting Attorney General; namely:-
(1.) A Bill for registering Births and Deaths in Hongkong.
(2.) A Bill to further amend the Law relating to Criminal Procedure.
(3.) A Bill for the Prevention of the Carriage of dangerous Goods on board Foreign Ships
without due Notice.
(4.) A Bill to regulate the Manufacture, Importation and Storage of Explosive Substances. (5.) A Bill for the Licensing and better Regulation of the Business of Brokers.
His Excellency adjourns the Council at 35 minutes past 4 o'clock, till Tuesday, the 23rd July, at 3 P.M.
Read and confirmed, this 23rd Day of July, 1872.
L. D'ALMADA E CASTRO,
Clerk of Councils.
A. E. KENNEDY,
Governor.
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