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VOTES AND PROCEEDINGS OF THE LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL OF HONGKONG. No.1 OF 1874

TUESDAY, 17TH FEBRUARY, 1874.

PRESENT:

His Excellency Governor SIR ARTHUR EDWARD KENNEDY, K.C.M.G., C.B. The Honorable the Chief Justice (JOHN SMALE).

The Honorable the Colonial Secretary (JOHN GARDINEE AUSTIN). The Honorable the Attorney General (JOHN BRAMSTON).

The Honorable the Acting Treasurer (CECIL CLEMENTI SMITH).

The Honorable PHINEAS RYRIE.

The Honorable RICHARD ROWETT.

The Honorable WILLIAM HASTINGS ALEXANDER.

The Honorable JAMES WHITTALL.

The Council meets this day, pursuant to postponement,—no Meeting having taken place on the 16th Instant, for which day the Council had been summoned.

The Minutes of the Council held on the 9th December, 1873, are read and confirmed.

His Excellency lays on the Table the Jury List for 1874, and the same being revised and amended,—55 of the Names on the List are designated as. "Special Jurors."

His Excellency states that at the next Meeting of the Council he will lay on the Table the Project of the Surveyor General (Mr. PRICE), for effecting an efficient supply of Water of the City,—a Copy of which has been already circulated amongst Honorable Members.

His Excellency then adjourns the Council at 20 minutes past 3 o'clock.

A. E. KENNEDY,

Governor.

Read and confirmed, this 5th Day of March, 1874.

L. D'ALMADA E CASTRO,

Clerk of Councils.