VOTES AND PROCEEDINGS OF THE LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL OF HONGKONG. No.11 OF 1876.
MONDAY, 18TH DECEMBER, 1876.
PRESENT:
His Excellency Governor SIR ARTHUR EDWARD KENNEDY, K.C.M.G.,C.B. The Honourable the Chief Justice (SIR JOHN SMALE).
The Honourable the Colonial Secretary (JOHN GARDINER AUSTIN, C.M.G.). The Honourable the Acting Attorney General (JAMES RUSSELL).
The Honourable the Acting Colonial Treasurer (CHARLES MAY).
The Honourable HENRY LOWCOCK.
The Honourable WILLIAM KESWICK.
ABSENT:
The Honourable PHINEAS RYRIE.
The Council meets this day at 2.30 P.M., pursuant to adjournment.
The Minutes of the Meeting of Council held on the 11th December, 1876, are read and confirmed.
Read a second time a Bill to regulate the Number of Passengers carried by Steam-vessels plying between Hongkong and Macao, and between Hongkong and Places on the Canton River.
By direction of His Excellency a report is read from the Harbour Master stating the number of passengers now carried by the river steamers, the net registered tonnage of these vessels, and the diminution in the number of passengers which the passing of the new Ordinance would entail.
A letter is also read from Messrs. Butterfield and Swire urging the grounds in consideration of which they hoped the Bill would not permitted to become law.
A further report from the Harbour Master, in reply to the statements contained in this letter, is also read.
The Council deliberates, and finally the second reading of the Bill is carried nemine dissentiente.
The Bill is then committed and passed, without alteration, bearing the Title of－"An Ordinance enacted by the Governor of Hongkong, with the Advice of the Legislative Council thereof, to regulate the Number of Passengers carried by Steam-vessels plying between Hongkong and Macao, and between Hongkong and Places on the Canton River,"－being "No.11 of 1876."
His Excellency moves for a vote of £218.10 for payment of a life saving and rocket apparatus, which had been purchased for the Hongkong Humane Society, and states in detail his reasons for thinking it desirable that this apparatus should become public property.
Vote carried.
Passed pro-forma a vote which, having already been approved by Honourable Members, for $500 to the Colonial Chaplain for compensation for all past or prospective loss incurred by him in the diminution of his fees through the working of the new marriage Ordinance.
The following Committee is then appointed to enquire into the state of the Fire Brigade, with a view to ascertaining the expediency or otherwise of appointing an Engineer to be permanently in charge of the Fire Brigade Engines:－
The Honourable J. GARDINER AUSTIN, Chairman
The Honourable CHARLES MAY
The Honourable HENRY LOWCOCK.
The Honourable WILLIAM KESWICK.
His Excellency adjourns the Council sine die at 3.30 P.M.
JOHN SMALE, Chief Justice,
President.
Read and confirmed, this 26th day of February, 1877.
H. E. WODEHOUSE,
Clerk of Councils.
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