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LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL No. 21.

WEDNESDAY, 24TH MARCH, 1886.

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PRESENT:

HIS EXCELLENCY WILLIAM HENRY MARSH, C.M.G.,

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Administering the Government in the absence of His Excellency SIR GEORGE FERGUSON BOWEN, G.C.M.G.

His Honour the Chief Justice, (SIR GEORGE PHILLIPPO, Knt.)

The Honourable the Acting Colonial Secretary, (FREDERICK STEWART, LL.D.)

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the Acting Attorney General, (EDWARD JAMES ACKROYD.)

the Colonial Treasurer, (ALFRED LISTER.)

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the Surveyor General, (JOHN MACNEILE PRICE.)

PHINEAS RYRIE.

WILLIAM KESWICK.

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THOMAS JACKSON.

WONG SHING.

ABSENT:

The Honourable the Attorney General, (EDWARD LOUGHLIN O'MALLEY,) on leave.

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FREDERICK DAVID SASSOON (on leave).

The Council met pursuant to adjournment.

The Minutes of the last Meeting, held on the 17th instant, were read and confirmed.

VOTES OF MONEY REFERRED TO THE FINANCE COMMITTEE. Read the following Minutes by His Excellency the Officer Administering the Government:-

C.8.0.

649 of 1886.

W. H. MARSH.

(1.) The Officer Administering the Government recommends the Council to vote the sum of $950, to enable the Sanitary Board to pay the expenses incurred in suppressing the recent Cattle Epidemic.

The sum asked for is thus made up:-

Disinfection and burial of carcases,

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Disinfection of Cow-houses,

Destruction of suspected fodder,

..$ 80.00

150.00

130.00

Removal and destruction of suspected manure and litter, .84.00

Matsheds for segregation of Cattle,.

Miscellaneous.....

470.00

36.00

$950.00

C.S.0. 546 of 1886.

C.S.O. 666 of 1886.

(2.) The Officer Administering the Government lays before the Council for their con- sideration a letter (Paper No. 18) from Dr. DOBERCK, Director of the Observatory, representing that unless he has a second Chinese Clerk allowed to him it will be impossible for him to continue furnishing the weather forecasts and storm-warnings.

(3.) The Officer Administering the Government recommends the Council to vote the. sum of $90 to provide a Chinese Teacher to give instruction in Chinese colloquial to Officers of the Gaol. (From 1st April to 31st December, 9 months, at $10 per month.)

Government House, Hongkong, 24th March, 1886.

The Acting Colonial Secretary moved that these Minutes be referred to the Finance Committee. The Colonial Treasurer seconded.

Question-put and passed.

PAPERS.-The Acting Colonial Secretary, by direction of His Excellency the Officer Administering the Government, laid on the table the following papers :--

(a.) Report of the Director of the Observatory, for 1885. (No. 17.)

(b.) Application for an additional Chinese Clerk for the Observatory. (No. 18.)