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VOTES AND PROCEEDINGS OF THE

LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL OF HONGKONG.

NO. 20 OF 1873.

THURSDAY, 25TH 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 PHINEAS RYRIE.

The Honorable RICHARD ROWETT.

The Honorable WILLIAM HASTINGS ALEXANDER.

The Honorable JAMES WHITTALL.

ABSENT:

The Honorable HENRY JOHN BALL,—absent on leave.

The Council meets this day at 2.30 P.M., pursuant to adjournment. The Minutes of the Council held yesterday, are read and confirmed.

The Council resolves itself into Committee, and resumes the discussion and consideration of the Civil Procedure Bill, adjourned from yesterday's Meeting.

Certain amendments are made, and agreed to.

The Bill having gone through Committee, is reported with amendments, which are adopted by the Council.

The Council then goes into Committee upon the Clauses of the Bill for the Abolition of the Court of Summary Jurisdiction.

The Honorable the Attorney General explains the provisions of the Bill.

Certain amendments are agreed to, and the Bill having gone through Committee, is adopted by the Council as amended.

His Excellency adjourns the Council at 5 o'clock, till Tuesday next, the 30th September, at 2.30 P.M.

A. E. KENNEDY,

Governor.

Read and confirmed, this 30th Day of September, 1873.

L. D'ALMADA E CASTRO,

Clerk of Councils.