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THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 31ST MARCH, 1866.
VOTES AND PROCEEDINGS OF THE LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL OF HONGKONG.
No. 5 of 1866.
MONDAY, 12TH MARCH, 1866.
PRESENT:
His Excellency the ACTING GOVERNOR, and all the Members.
The Council met to-day by special Summons,-there being also present His Excellency SIR RICHARD GRAVES MACDONNELL, Knight, C.B., His Excellency VICE-ADMIRAL KING, C.B., Naval Com- mander-in-Chief, The Honorable MAJOR GENERAL GUY, C.B., Commanding Her Majesty's Troops in China and Japan; several Officers, Civil, Naval, and Military, and many of the principal Inhabitants of the Colony, who attended the Meeting.
His Excellency SI RICHARD GRAVES MACDONNELL then laid on the Table a Commission from Her Most Gracious Majesty The QUEEN, under the Great Seal, of the 14th Day of October, 1865, appointing him to be Governor and Commander-in-Chief of the Colony of Hongkong and its Dependencies; and the same having been read, His Excellency took the Oaths of Office under the usual Salutes, and assumed the Administration of the Government of the Colony.
The Council then adjourned.
Read and approved, this 29th Day of March, 1866.
L. D'ALMADÁ E CASTRO,
Clerk of Councils.
RICHARD GRAVES MACDONNELL,
Governor.
GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.
The following Bill, read a first time at a Meeting of the Legislative Council held this day, is published for general information.
By Order,
L. D'ALMADA E CASTRO,
Clerk of Councils.
Council Chamber, Hongkong, 29th March, 1866.
Title.
Preamble.
An Ordinance enacted by the Governor of Hongkong, with the Advice of the Legislative Council thereof, to authorize the Appropriation of a Supplementary Sum not exceeding Two hundred and Sixty-five thousand Dollars to defray the Charges of the Year 1865. Whereas it has become necessary to make further Provision for the Public Service. of the Colony for the Year 1865, in addition to the Charge upon the Revenue for the Service of the said Year already provided for in the Estimates submitted to the Legislative Council: Be it enacted by the Governor of Hongkong, with the Advice of the Legislative Council thereof, as follows:-
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