VOTES AND PROCEEDINGS OF THE LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL OF HONGKONG. No.5 OF 1878
MONDAY, 18TH NOVEMBER, 1878.
PRESENT:
His Excellency Governor J. POPE HENNESSY, C.M.G.
The Honourable the Acting Chief Justice (FRANCIS SNOWDEX).
The Honourable the Acting Colonial Secretary (CHARLES MAY).
The Honourable the Acting Colonial Treasurer (JOHN MACNEILE PRICE). The Honourable PHINEAS RYRIE.
The Honourable HENRY LOWCOCK.
The Honourable WILLIAM KESWICK.
The Honourable THOMAS CHILD HAYLLAR, Q.C.
ABSENT:
The Honourable the Attorney General (GEORGE PHILLIPPO), from indisposition.
The Minutes of the last Meeting of Council are read and confirmed.
The Honourable JOHN MACNEILE PRICE, with the permission of His Excellency, lays upon the Table and details Estimates, which he had prepared, showing the cost of different schemes of Gaol reconstruction.
The discussion regarding Gaol reconstruction is continued and is brought to a conclusion.
The Honourable HENRY LOWCOCK gives notice that at the next meeting he will move that the correspondence between the Government and the Supreme Court, the Magistrates and the Police Department, with reference to every case deported or recommended to the Executive for deportation since April,1877, be laid on the Table.
His Excellency said that he would at once agree to have the correspondence alluded to laid on the Table.
His Excellency adjourns the Council sine die.
J. POPE HENNESSY,
Governor
Read and confirmed, this 18th day of January, 1879.
H. E. WODEHOUSE,
Clerk of Councils.
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