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Extract from the Minutes of the Finance Committee of the Legislative Council.
February 10th, 1885.
The Committee consider the question of the mail subsidy.
Read a letter on this subject from the Chairman of the Hongkong General Chamber of Commerce, dated the 15th January, 1885, and one forwarding a communication from Mr. MACKINTOSH of the firm of Messrs. BUTTERFIELD & SWIRE, expressing his view on the subject.
Read also a report by the Postmaster General (Mr. LISTER), containing a résumé of the correspondence relative to the Eastern Mail Service and its relation to Hongkong, with some additional observations and suggestions.
Resolved that as the sections of the Community which are most interested in the question of the conveyance of mails are represented by the Chamber of Commerce, the recommendations of that Chamber, which have been made with only one dissentient vote, should, in the opinion of the Committee, be recom- mended for adoption.
The Committee trust that, in any new arrangements, the distribution of the amount of contribution towards the paying of the subsidy will be favourably considered as far as this Colony is concerned, and recommend that the papers on this subject which have not already been printed should be printed forthwith.
W. H. MARSH, Chairman,
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