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VOTES AND PROCEEDINGS OF THE

LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL OF HONGKONG.

NO. 7 OF 1873.

MONDAY, 28TH APRIL, 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 PHINEAS RYRIE.

The Honorable RICHARD ROWETT.

The Honorable WILLIAM HASTINGS ALEXANDER.

The Honorable JAMES WHITTALL.

The Council meets this day at 2 P.M., by order of the Governor, instead of at 2.30 P.M. to which hour the Council was adjourned.

The Minutes of the Council held on the 24th April, are read and confirmed.

The Supplementary Appropriation Bill for 1872 is read a second time, and the Council goes into Committee upon the Supplementary Estimates for the said year.

The following Votes are then agreed to:—

ESTABLISHMENT. $ c.

Judicial, ............................................................................................... 256.74

SERVICES EXCLUSIVE OF ESTABLISHMENTS.

Educational, ........................................................................................ 119.00 Police,.................................................................................................. 13,656.25 Charitable Allowances, ....................................................................... 237.44 Works and Buildings, .......................................................................... 30,665.04 Roads, Streets, and Bridges, ............................................................... 28,624.20 Miscellaneous Services, ...................................................................... 7,097.91 Total, ............ $ 80,656.58

The Estimates having gone through Committee, and the Appropriation Bill being in accordance with the foregoing Votes, His Excellency puts the Question that this Bill do pass, and that the Title be,—"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 Eighty-one thousand Dollars to defray the Charges of the Year 1872.

Question put and carried,—the Ordinance being numbered "No. 4 of 1873."

His Excellency moves that the Bill to make further Provision for the Repression of Abuses in relation to Chinese Emigration be read a second time.

Discussion follows upon the principle of the Bill.

The Honorable JAMES WHITTALL and the Honorable PHINEAS RYRIE address the Council against the second Reading of the Bill.

The Honorable RICHARD ROWETT addresses the Council in support of the Bill.

The Honorable HENRY JOHN BALL approves of the principle of the Bill, but objects to several of the Clauses. He reserves further remarks for the discussion of the Bill in Committee.

The Honorable the Chief Justice, the Honorable the Acting Colonial Secretary, and the Honorable the Attorney General address the Council in support of the Bill, and His Excellency the Governor, after expressing his views in favor of the proposed Legislation, invites a Division of the Council on the second Reading.

Original motion put by His Excellency, that the Bill be read a second time. Council divides.

Ayes (8).

Mr. ALEXANDER.

Mr. ROWETT.

Mr. BALL.

THE ACTING TREASURER.

THE ATTORNEY GENERAL.

THE ACTING COLONIAL SECRETARY. THE CHIEF JUSTICE.

THE GOVERNOR.

Motion carried.

Noes (2).

Mr. WHITTALL. Mr. RYRIE.

The Bill is read a second time, and the Council goes into Committee upon the Clauses of the Bill.

Sections 1 and 2 are read and considered.

It is then moved by the Honorable the Acting Colonial Secretary, and seconded by the Honorable the Acting Treasurer, that the further consideration of the Bill in Committee be adjourned till the next Meeting of the Council.

Question put and carried.

His Excellency adjourns the Council at 5 minutes before 4 o'clock, until to-morrow, the 29th instant, at 2.30 P.M.

A. E. KENNEDY,

Governor.

Read and confirmed, this 29th Day of April, 1873.

L. D'ALMADA E CASTRO,

Clerk of Councils.