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LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL No. 29.

FRIDAY, 7TH MAY, 1886.

PRESENT:

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

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

His Honour the Acting Chief Justice, (JAMES RUSSELL.)

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.)

the Surveyor General, (JOHN MACNEILE PRICE.)

PHINEAS RYRIE.

WONG SHING.

ABSENT:

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

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

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WILLIAM KESWICK, on leave.

THOMAS JACKSON, on leave..

FREDERICK DAVID SASSOON, on leave.

The Council met pursuant to adjournment.

The Minutes of the last Meeting, held on the 4th instant, were read and confirmed.

INDIAN AND COLONIAL EXHIBITION, 1886.-His Excellency the Officer Administering the Govern- ment, referring to the Telegram in the Gazette Extraordinary published yesterday, read the following telegram since received by him :----

From PRINCE OF WALES

LONDON, 6th May, 1886.

To the GOVERNORS of

Straits Settlements, Hongkong,

South Australia,

Western Australia, Victoria,

New South Wales, Queensland, New Zealand, Fiji.

At a meeting of the Royal Commission for the Colonial and Indian Exhibition, third May, the following resolution was unanimously adopted :-That an early opportunity be taken for conveying to the Colonial Governments the sincere thanks of the Royal Commission for having so thoroughly realised our views as to the form this Exhibition should take, and that our warmest acknowledgments are also due to the Executive Commissioners and to the Colonial Commissions.

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

C.S.O.

W. H. MARSH.

The Officer Administering the Government recommends the Council to vote the following sum:--

For expenses in connection with the Law Revision Commission, being salaries 3122 of 1885. of the Secretary and Copying Clerk, and Contingencies, to be paid during the

year 1886,

...$ 2,500.00

The expenditure on this account, during 1885, has already been sanctioned by the Council. Government House, Hongkong, 7th May, 1886.

The Acting Colonial Secretary moved that this vote be referred to the Finance Committee. The Colonial Treasurer seconded.

Question-put and passed.