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The Governor requests the Council to vote the sum of £200 (Two hundred Pounds Sterling) to be paid during the year 1885, to the Student who may obtain, after competitive examination, the Scholarship proposed to be awarded each alternate year in accordance with the draft regulations which were laid on the Council table on the 28th February last. A further sum of $380 is also required to be voted for the passage to England of the student who obtains the Scholarship. Although these sums will not be required until next year, and will accordingly be provided in next year's Estimates, the Governor thinks it right to obtain the sanction of the Council at once in order that he may promulgate, for the information of competitors, the subjects in which it is proposed that they should be examined in December next.

NATURALISATION ORDINANCE. On the motion of the Attorney General, seconded by the Colonial Secretary, the Bill entitled An Ordinance for the naturalisation of TSEUNG SZ-KÁI was committed and passed.

THE MEDICAL REGISTRATION ORDINANCE, 1884.-The Attorney General moved that the Council go into Committee on the Bill entitled The Medical Registration Ordinance, 1884.

Question-put and passed.

On the motion of the Attorney General, seconded by the Colonial Secretary, the Bill was passed. SAVINGS BANK ORDINANCE. On the motion of the Attorney General, seconded by the Honourable P. RYRIE, the order for the second reading of the Bill entitled The Savings Bank Ordinance, 1884, was discharged.

On the motion of the Attorney General, seconded by the Colonial Secretary, the order for the second reading of the Bill entitled The Prison Ordinance, 1884, was discharged.

DANGEROUS GOODS ORDINANCE, AMENDMENT ORDINANCE, 1884.--On the motion of the Attorney General, seconded by the Colonial Secretary, the Bill entitled The Dangerous Goods Ordinance, Amend- ment Ordinance, 1884, was read a second time.

The Attorney General gave notice that at the next meeting he would move that the Council go into Committee on the Bill.

PRESERVATION OF BIRDS ORDINANCE, 1870, AMENDMENT ORDINANCE, 1884. On the motion of the Attorney General, seconded by the Colonial Secretary, the Bill entitled The Preservation of Birds Ordinance, 1870, Amendment Ordinance, 1884, was read a second time.

The Attorney General gave notice that at the next meeting he would move that the Council go into Committee on the Bill.

The Colonial Secretary moved the adjournment of the Council until Saturday, the 5th instant, at 3 P.M.

Question-put and passed.

Read and confirmed, this 9th day of April, 1884.

J. II. STEWART-LOCKHART,

Acting Clerk of Councils,

G. F. BOWEN, Governor.